Liferea segmentation fault on start

[Roshan George]

Liferea crashes with a segmentation fault when started. It used to work, but then started having trouble updating. Now, with no .liferea-1.4 directory (and hence, no database), it crashes instantly on start (output is attached).

Versions:
Liferea 1.4.14
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1 x86_64, 2.6.24-23-generic
Python 2.5.2 (package version 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1)

[Roshan George (roshan-george)]

I have also attached the output to the command liferea --debug-all. This is all I can manage to do. I tried installing the liferea-dbg package and tried running gdb on the program /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/liferea-bin but I got this output: (chmodding that file to executable did not help)

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Starting program: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/liferea-bin
/bin/bash: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/liferea-bin: Permission denied
/bin/bash: line 0: exec: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/liferea-bin: cannot execute: Success

Program exited with code 0176.
warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
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The Ubuntu Wiki Debugging instructions don't seem to be helpful here. How can I provide more information?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Thanks for the report! This is likely cuased due to the update in bug 295490, so I'm marking this as a duplicate.

By the way, you need to run gdb with /usr/bin/liferea-bin, then it will automatically load the debugging symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/liferea-bin.