friends-dispatcher crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_type_info_get_type_string()

[Michael Blennerhassett]

Seems to be reproduceable by 'like'ing facebook posts.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: friends-dispatcher 0.1.3daily13.04.05-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 7 17:34:36 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/friends-dispatcher
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-09 (209 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/friends-dispatcher -o
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f9938088b60: movzbl 0x8(%rdi),%eax
 PC (0x7f9938088b60) ok
 source "0x8(%rdi)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: friends
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_type_info_get_type_string () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: friends-dispatcher crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_type_info_get_type_string()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-12-06 (121 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Well, ya got me. Python code shouldn't be segfaulting, *EVER*, so this is either a bug in pygi, or Gio.

There may be a workaround possible in python but I don't currently know what it might be. I'm unable to reproduce this -- liking facebook posts is working fine for me.

[Arns Udovīčė (uosinis)]

to me friends crashes on upgraded system. If I take fresh (guest sesion) and configure to listen to facebook - everything alright

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Arns, do you know what crash you're getting? It would be helpful to see the error message (such as the contents of the file ~/.cache/friends/friends.log). Please file a new bug with as much information as you're able to provide.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Friends because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for friends (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]