[apport] kicker crashed with SIGSEGV in QGArray::QGArray()

[Johann-Nikolaus Andreae]

Insert KNewsTicker in the kicker.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 24 18:06:50 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kicker
Package: kicker 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu20
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: kicker --nocrashhandler
ProcCwd: /home/johann
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: kdebase
StacktraceTop:
 QGArray::QGArray () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
 XMLNewsSource::slotResult ()
 XMLNewsSource::qt_invoke ()
 NewsSourceBase::qt_invoke ()
 SourceFileNewsSource::qt_invoke ()
Uname: Linux desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:QGArray (this=0xbfc944c4, a=@0x10) at tools/qgarray.cpp:161
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[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for your report. Your backtrace is not complete, but I think that it is related to knewsticker. Please attach the file .kde/share/config/kickerrc to give us more information about your panel. Please explain what actions do you do before the problem happens. Thanks

[Johann-Nikolaus Andreae (johann-nikolaus-andreae)]

Yes is is the KNewstiker.
I youse OpenSuse 10.2. On a second partition i have install kubuntu use the same partition for /home
Afterlogin the kicker krash traying to load the newsticker.
With OpenSuse 10.2 knewstiker works fine.

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for additional information. If I'm not going wrong, Kubuntu 7.04 uses KDE 3.5.6 and Opensuse uses KDE 3.5.5. Is correct?

[Johann-Nikolaus Andreae (johann-nikolaus-andreae)]

Yes this is correct but i have updated to KDE 3.5.6

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Please try to install kdebase-dbg and kdelibs-dbg. When the problem happens again, Apport should allow to report the bug with a better backtrace. Please post here the number of new report. Thanks for your collaboration.

[Johann-Nikolaus Andreae (johann-nikolaus-andreae)]

So the new backtrace is uploaded as bug 115747
The creash is happen if i update the news. Sometimes at startup sometimes later.

KDE Backtrace:
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1232509232 (LWP 5367)]
[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb758f10f in QGArray::QGArray () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#7 0xb5f83a63 in XMLNewsSource::slotResult ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/knewsticker_panelapplet.so
#8 0xb5f83b52 in XMLNewsSource::qt_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/knewsticker_panelapplet.so
#9 0xb5f84618 in NewsSourceBase::qt_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/knewsticker_panelapplet.so
#10 0xb5f84777 in SourceFileNewsSource::qt_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/knewsticker_panelapplet.so
#11 0xb729b88b in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#12 0xb7af458e in KIO::Job::result (this=0x0, t0=0x8295818)
    at ./jobclasses.moc:162
#13 0xb7b36f6d in KIO::Job::emitResult (this=0x8295818)
    at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.6/./kio/kio/job.cpp:235
#14 0xb7b373ce in KIO::SimpleJob::slotFinished (this=0x8295818)
    at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.6/./kio/kio/job.cpp:601
#15 0xb7b37add in KIO::TransferJob::slotFinished (this=0x8295818)
    at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.6/./kio/kio/job.cpp:971
#16 0xb7b36b01 in KIO::SimpleJob::qt_invoke (this=0x8295818, _id=7,
    _o=0xbfb3a138) at ./jobclasses.moc:417
#17 0xb7b36b63 in KIO::TransferJob::qt_invoke (this=0x8295818, _id=7,
    _o=0xbfb3a138) at ./jobclasses.moc:1082
#18 0xb729b88b in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#19 0xb7627ae0 in QSignal::signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#20 0xb72bb81e in QSignal::activate () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#21 0xb72c3234 in QSingleShotTimer::event () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#22 0xb7232a60 in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#23 0xb723488f in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#24 0xb793ace2 in KApplication::notify (this=0x808cda0, receiver=0x8131fc8,
    event=0xbfb3a488)
    at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.6/./kdecore/kapplication.cpp:550
#25 0xb71c51e9 in QApplication::sendEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#26 0xb72254ab in QEventLoop::activateTimers () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#27 0xb71d9d25 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#28 0xb724d136 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#29 0xb724cf46 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#30 0xb7234609 in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#31 0xb663e7c2 in kdemain (argc=1, argv=0x8086458)
    at /build/buildd/kdebase-3.5.6/./kicker/kicker/core/main.cpp:149
#32 0xb674b464 in kdeinitmain (argc=1, argv=0x8086458) at kicker_dummy.cpp:3
#33 0x0804e6bf in launch (argc=1, _name=0x808627c "kicker",
    args=0x8086283 "", cwd=0x0, envc=0, envs=0x8086287 "", reset_env=false,
    tty=0x0, avoid_loops=false, startup_id_str=0x805102e "0")
    at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.6/./kinit/kinit.cpp:673
#34 0x0804ef42 in handle_launcher_request (sock=9)
    at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.6/./kinit/kinit.cpp:1240
#35 0x0804f318 in handle_requests (waitForPid=0)
    at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.6/./kinit/kinit.cp...

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for your help to improve Kubuntu. Confirm this bug.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This isn't an issue in Kubuntu Intrepid (8.10) since Kicker is no more. (replaced by Plasma)
Thanks for the bug report, and thanks for your interest to help Kubuntu!