Arch Linux

Description:

When launching modem-manager-gui, nothing is displayed.

There is an upstream report of the bug here : https://linuxonly.ru/forum/modem-manager-gui/57/cannot-load-modem-manager-gui-arch-linux-lts-i3wm/#post-241


Additional info:
* modem-manager-gui 0.0.19.1-2
* kernel 4.20.10-arch1-1-ARCH


Steps to reproduce:

Launching the app
$ modem-manager-gui

Output :
Connection manager: Network Manager >= 0.9.0
Modem manager: Modem Manager >= 0.7.0

(modem-manager-gui:29096): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:30:00.596: g_strrstr: assertion 'haystack != NULL' failed
munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer
Aborted (core dumped)

if using sudo :
$ sudo modem-manager-gui

it is launching - but when clicking on let's start :

Connection manager: Network Manager >= 0.9.0
Modem manager: Modem Manager >= 0.7.0

(modem-manager-gui:30504): libnotify-WARNING **: 11:37:37.253: Failed to connect to proxy

(modem-manager-gui:30504): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:37:37.253: g_strrstr: assertion 'haystack != NULL' failed
munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer
Aborted


== (gdb) r ==
Starting program: /usr/bin/modem-manager-gui
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff3b63700 (LWP 10605)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff3362700 (LWP 10606)]
Connection manager: Network Manager >= 0.9.0
Modem manager: Modem Manager >= 0.7.0
[New Thread 0x7fffebdee700 (LWP 10607)]
munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer

Thread 1 "modem-manager-g" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff70f8d7f in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6



== (gdb) bt full ==
#0 0x00007ffff70f8d7f in raise () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff70e3672 in abort () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007ffff713b878 in __libc_message () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#3 0x00007ffff714218a in () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x00007ffff71426e4 in () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x00007fffebdf71a5 in () at /usr/lib/modem-manager-gui/modules/libmodmm_mm07.so
#6 0x00007fffebdf95c3 in mmgui_module_devices_information () at /usr/lib/modem-manager-gui/modules/libmodmm_mm07.so
#7 0x000055555557aec4 in mmguicore_devices_open ()
#8 0x000055555558d775 in ()
#9 0x000055555559c337 in ()
#10 0x00005555555782f1 in mmgui_svcmanager_start_services_activation ()
#11 0x000055555557ddc6 in mmguicore_start ()
#12 0x00007ffff72e63c5 in g_closure_invoke () at /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00007ffff72d3195 in () at /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 0x00007ffff72d701e in g_signal_emit_valist () at /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 0x00007ffff72d7a80 in g_signal_emit () at /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00007ffff73a6249 in () at /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00007ffff73a589b in g_application_run () at /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#18 0x0000555555567c09 in main ()


A patch exists here (but not upstream) :
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=922608