Ubuntu
udisks2 package

  1. Bug #1508075
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1508075

Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: crash during network setup in ubiquity wily

Thanks Mathieu; all your traces indeed have

   +++ killed by SIGHUP +++

which is from /usr/lib/udisks2/udisks2-inhibit. This is a race condition, when polkit gets killed at the wrong time while a request is pending it would behave that way. Curious that this only surfaces right now, /usr/lib/udisks2/udisks2-inhibit has been like that for a while already.

All of your traces got interrupted in poll() though, i. e. there was no pending request (no recv* yet), so this did not interrupt a pending call. However, this is still bad.

Thing to try on a machine which reproduces this: Please comment out all the code except the final "$@" from /usr/lib/udisks2/udisks2-inhibit (from initramfs break=casper-bottom) and verify that this crash then stops. Then, once you are in ubiquity, run "pkill -e --signal STOP gvfs-udisks" to stop gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor (but that does not apply to all derivatives, such as KDE).

I'll think about how we can inhibit udisks without having to restart polkit.