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synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()

Bug #830750 reported by Tor Harald Thorland on 2011-08-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #880493: Synaptic crashes in vfprintf() with Norwegian locale. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Synaptic crash when launched as gksudo synaptic

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Aug 22 00:40:30 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: synaptic
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x3981410 <vfprintf+13024>: repnz scas %es:(%edi),%al
PC (0x03981410) ok
source "%es:(%edi)" (0x690e8141) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
vfprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
__vasprintf_chk () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
g_vasprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_strdup_vprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_strdup_printf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-14 (7 days ago)
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Tor Harald Thorland (linux-strigen) wrote on 2011-08-21:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (897 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (25.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (728 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (484 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (994 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Tor Harald Thorland (linux-strigen) on 2011-08-21

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-08-24:

#2

StacktraceTop:
_IO_vfprintf_internal (s=Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffff
_IO_acquire_lock_clear_flags2_fct (p=<optimized out>) at ../libio/libioP.h:993
___vprintf_chk (flag=148023016, format=0x8d2a6e8 "0 pakker, 0 installert, 0 \303\270delagt. 0 skal installeres/oppgraderes, 0 skal fjernes ; B vil bli ", ap=0x8d2a747 "") at vprintf_chk.c:31
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-08-24: Stacktrace.txt

#3

Stacktrace.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-08-24: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-09-08

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Thorben Dahl (thorbendahl) wrote on 2012-05-05:

#5

I think this bug is spesific to the Norwegian translation. Changing the language to English fixes this problem for me.

How to reproduce:
1. Open "Language Support"
2. Install Norwegian Bokmål if not installed already, then drag "Norsk, bokmål (Norge)" to the top of the list.
3. Apply system-wide (I don't know if this is necessary)
4. Log out and log in again
5. Open "Synaptic pakkebehandler", type in password as usual
6. Shortly after its window appears, it will crash

(to change language back to what you usually use, open "Språkstøtte")

Workaround:
Drag "English" to the top of the language list in "Language Support" ("Språkstøtte" in Norwegian), then log out and in again.
Synaptic Package Manager should now open without crashing.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-11-19:

#6

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #880493, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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