Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in DoConfigure()

[Amr Ibrahim]

The crash happened while I was trying to do the following in a root shell in recovery mode:

Xorg -configure

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xserver-xorg-core-hwe-16.04 2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1~16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-28.32~16.04.2-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 2 16:43:40 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-21 (41 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -configure
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: xorg-server-hwe-16.04
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 DoConfigure ()
 InitOutput ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main (main=0x55c403e632f0, argc=2, argv=0x7ffc1ade2d88, init=<optimised out>, fini=<optimised out>, rtld_fini=<optimised out>, stack_end=0x7ffc1ade2d78) at ../csu/libc-start.c:291
Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in DoConfigure()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceSource:
 #0 0x00007ff892566428 in ?? ()
 #1 0x00007ff89256802a in ?? ()
 #2 0x0000000000000020 in ?? ()
 #3 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

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Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate a useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

no debug symbol package found for debianutils
no debug symbol package found for perl-base
libbabeltrace-ctf1 version 1.2.1 required, but 1.3.2-1 is available
libbabeltrace1 version 1.2.1 required, but 1.3.2-1 is available
libc6 version 2.15 required, but 2.23-0ubuntu9 is available
libexpat1 version 2.0.1 required, but 2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.3 is available
liblzma5 version 5.1.1alpha+20110809 required, but 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2 is available
libncurses5 version 6 required, but 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 is available
libpython3.5 version 3.5.0~b1 required, but 3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.1 is available
libreadline6 version 6.0 required, but 6.3-8ubuntu2 is available
libtinfo5 version 6 required, but 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 is available
zlib1g version 1:1.2.0 required, but 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.1 is available
libglib2.0-0 version 2.22.0 required, but 2.48.2-0ubuntu1 is available
libuuid1 version 2.16 required, but 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3 is available
libffi6 version 3.0.4 required, but 3.2.1-4 is available
libselinux1 version 1.32 required, but 2.4-3build2 is available
libncursesw5 version 6 required, but 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 is available
libsqlite3-0 version 3.5.9 required, but 3.11.0-1ubuntu1 is available
dpkg version 1.15.4 required, but 1.18.4ubuntu1.2 is available
libaudit1 version 1:2.2.1 required, but 1:2.4.5-1ubuntu2 is available
libpam0g version 0.99.7.1 required, but 1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2 is available
libsemanage1 version 2.0.3 required, but 2.3-1build3 is available
debianutils version 2.15.2 required, but 4.7 is available
no debug symbol package found for debianutils
libssl1.0.0 version 1.0.2~beta3 required, but 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.8 is available
tar version 1.23 required, but 1.28-2.1ubuntu0.1 is available
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libsepol1 version 2.1.4 required, but 2.4-2 is available
libustr-1.0-1 version 1.0.4 required, but 1.0.4-5 is available
libacl1 version 2.2.51-8 required, but 2.2.52-3 is available
perl-base version 5.6.1-4 required, but 5.22.1-9 is available
no debug symbol package found for perl-base
libattr1 version 1:2.4.46-8 required, but 1:2.4.47-2 is available
outdated -dbg package for libwayland-server0: package version 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.1 -dbg version 1.9.0-1
outdated -dbg package for libdrm-radeon1: package version 2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1 -dbg version 2.4.70-1~ubuntu16.04.1
outdated -dbg package for libdrm2: package version 2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1 -dbg version 2.4.70-1~ubuntu16.04.1
outdated -dbg package for libdrm-nouveau2: package version 2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1 -dbg version 2.4.70-1~ubuntu16.04.1
outdated -dbg package for libdrm-amdgpu1: package version 2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1 -dbg version 2.4.70-1~ubuntu16.04.1
outdated -dbg package for libdrm-intel1: package version 2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1 -dbg version 2.4.70-1~ubuntu16.04.1
outdated -dbg package for libwayland-client0: package version 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.1 -dbg version 1....

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

The related Xorg crash LP: #1708185.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

16.04 is EOL, if you can reproduce on a newer release, please open a new bug, thanks