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synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()

Bug #952392 reported by Marius B. Kotsbak on 2012-03-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #839219: synaptic crashes immediately on startup with SIGABRT in raise() when run with UTF-8 locale/l10n strings. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 3 people

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

Bug Description

Maybe related to bug #787173 / bug #839219.

Does not happen when running "sudo LANG=en_EN.utf8 synaptic".

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: synaptic 0.75.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 11 18:03:19 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xb6831a14 <vfprintf+12836>: repnz scas %es:(%edi),%al
PC (0xb6831a14) ok
source "%es:(%edi)" (0xf7baa8db) 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 precise on 2012-03-11 (0 days ago)
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Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko) wrote on 2012-03-11:

#1

CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (20.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (90.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.gz Edit (29.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-03-11: This bug is a duplicate

#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #940621, so 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.

visibility:	private → public
visibility:	private → public
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-15:

#3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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

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Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko) wrote on 2012-03-23:

#4

Probably related to bug #787173.

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Hans Petter Birkeland (hanspb-h) wrote on 2012-07-03:

#5

Seems Marius is right. I'm Norwegian too and this occurs on Synaptic 0.75.9ubuntu1 in Linux Mint 13 as well. Using sudo LANG=en_EN.utf8 synaptic works but is not very practical since the Package Manager entry in MintMenu is not editable, and also MintUpdate can not install updates because of this.

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