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Doomsday segfaults when attempting to start on Ubuntu 17.04

Bug #1700822 reported by Hans Joachim Desserud on 2017-06-27

This bug affects 2 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
doomsday (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #847651
doomsday (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Hans Joachim Desserud
Zesty	Fix Released	Undecided	Hans Joachim Desserud

Bug Description

[SRU]
When attempting to run doomsday 1.15.8-3 on Ubuntu 17.04 it immediately segfaults.

This (and a separate segfault which happens when attempting to start a new game, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863536) are both resolved in Debian with version 1.15.8-5. It has been synced to Ubuntu Artful so the issue should be resolved for future releases, but is still present in 17.04.

[Impact]
doomsday 1.15.8-3 on Ubuntu 17.04 currently fails to start.

[Testcase]
This is twofold due to the two segfaults.

(As a prerequisite, install a package with game data, for instance `doom-wad-shareware`)
1. Run `doomsday` to start the "game launcher"
Test A: the program should not segfault.
2. From the list of available games, pick one, for instance DOOM shareware.
3. Start a new game of Doom (Press escape, then select New game -> Single player -> Knee-deep in the dead -> Hurt me plenty.
Test B: the game should not segfault.
4. Run around in the game for a while.
5. Have fun :)

[Regression Potential]
The program is currently crashing instead of starting, so I'm not sure how much it can regress.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: doomsday 1.15.8-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-24.28-generic 4.10.15
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Tue Jun 27 20:54:33 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-09 (931 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: doomsday
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-30 (58 days ago)

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2017-06-27:

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Changed in doomsday (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)
status:	New → In Progress

Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) on 2017-06-27

description:

updated

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-06-27

Changed in doomsday (Debian):
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2017-06-27:

zesty.debdiff Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain)

Debdiff bringing in the patches resolving the segfaults to the zesty package.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2017-06-27:

The attachment "zesty.debdiff" seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are member of the ~ubuntu-sponsors, unsubscribe the team.

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added: patch

Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) on 2017-06-27

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Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote on 2017-06-28:

Fixed the status to point to zesty, but I don't have time right now to look at this more closely.

Changed in doomsday (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in doomsday (Ubuntu Zesty):
status:	New → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2017-06-28:

No problem, thanks for targeting the zesty release :)

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote on 2017-08-30:

Uploaded to Zesty, it's now in the Unapproved queue.

Thank you for your contribution to Ubuntu!

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2017-08-31: Please test proposed package

Hello Hans, or anyone else affected,

Accepted doomsday into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/doomsday/1.15.8-3ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-zesty to verification-done-zesty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-zesty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in doomsday (Ubuntu Zesty):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed verification-needed-zesty

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2017-09-03:

Tested on and Ubuntu 17.04 virtual machine (amd64)

After installing the package from -proposed I was no longer able to trigger any segfaults. Played for a while, but didn't spot any regressions.

In conclusion, marking this as verified.

tags:

added: verification-done verification-done-zesty
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-zesty

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-09-13:

This bug was fixed in the package doomsday - 1.15.8-3ubuntu0.1

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doomsday (1.15.8-3ubuntu0.1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Add patches to fix the following issues:
    - segfault on startup (Closes: #847651. Fixes LP: #1700822)
    - segfault when attempting to start a new game (Closes: #863536)
    - make the build reproducible (Closes: #858333)
  * Effectively this adds the same patches as in 1.15.8-5, therefore
    the reproducible build patch is included as well to keep the delta
    to that version to a minimum.

-- Hans Joachim Desserud <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:59:36 +0200

Changed in doomsday (Ubuntu Zesty):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2017-09-13: Update Released

#10

The verification of the Stable Release Update for doomsday has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.