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update-alternatives crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

Bug #615109 reported by Wajih Letaief on 2010-08-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #615100: update-alternatives crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main(). Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dpkg

the update-alternatives seems to crash but he finished before that the task and restart the lao

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: dpkg 1.15.8.2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 8 21:13:12 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-alternatives
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100630.2)
ProcCmdline: update-alternatives --remove-all ps2pdf
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF8
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xa2b598: movzbl (%eax),%ecx
PC (0x00a2b598) ok
source "(%eax)" (0x00000019) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: dpkg
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()
__libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? ()
Title: update-alternatives crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()
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Wajih Letaief (mawale) wrote on 2010-08-08:

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Dependencies.txt Edit (548 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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ProcStatus.txt Edit (729 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-09-09:

#2

StacktraceTop:
__strcmp_ssse3 ()
?? () at ../../utils/update-alternatives.c:529
main (argc=3, argv=0xbfb70c54)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-09-09: Stacktrace.txt

#3

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-09-09: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (709 bytes, text/plain)

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

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2010-11-23:

#5

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 615109, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-11-23

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