hal_lpadmin crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGC_Collect()

[Richard Rickwood]

Binary package hint: hal-cups-utils

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ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Disassembly: 0x746f6c73:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal_lpadmin
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: hal-cups-utils 0.6.17+git20080728-0ubuntu2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal_lpadmin --remove
ProcEnviron: PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: hal-cups-utils
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 PyGC_Collect ()
 Py_Finalize ()
Title: hal_lpadmin crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGC_Collect()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-6-generic i686
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:?? ()
tupletraverse (o=0xb7d8af7c, visit=0x80f7fc0 <visit_decref>, arg=0x0)
collect (generation=2) at ../Modules/gcmodule.c:295
PyGC_Collect () at ../Modules/gcmodule.c:1265
Py_Finalize () at ../Python/pythonrun.c:389

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

The crash happens in Python and not in hal_lpadmin. Moving ...

By the way, with the deprecation of HAL, the hal-cups-utils get deprecated upstream and removed from Ubuntu, so any bugs in the hal_lpadmin script will not get fixed any more. A replacement for the script will soon appear in the system-config-printer-common package.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

closing this report; there is a bunch of reports about crashes in PyGC_Collect() (#274000, #277559, #332799, #341438, #346399, #361210, #407889, #416471, #281344, #352861), found via https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=PyGC_Collect, but none newer than mid of August 2009. closing these reports, please reopen, if the crash is still reproducible with current karmic, and add information/data how to reproduce.