devicekit-power needs to be stopped when new package is installed

[Kees Cook]

Binary package hint: update-notifier

I cannot start update-notifier:

$ update-notifier

(update-notifier:21936): libgdu-WARNING **: Couldn't call GetAll() to get properties for /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Disks/devices/dm_2d32: Method "GetAll" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

I suspect this is bug 403192, but if that's the case, the bug should be "devicekit-disks does not restart when new package is installed".

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 31 22:11:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-notifier
Package: update-notifier 0.87
ProcCmdline: update-notifier
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fa3947cf6d0 <gdu_device_get_object_path>: mov 0x18(%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7fa3947cf6d0) ok
 source "0x18(%rdi)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-notifier
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00007fa3947cf6d0 in gdu_device_get_object_path ()
    from /usr/lib/libgdu.so.0
 #1 0x00007fa3947cd939 in gdu_pool_new () from /usr/lib/libgdu.so.0
 #2 0x000000000040b896 in up_do_hal_init ()
 #3 0x0000000000406ab2 in main ()
StacktraceTop:
 gdu_device_get_object_path ()
 gdu_pool_new () from /usr/lib/libgdu.so.0
 up_do_hal_init ()
 main ()
Title: update-notifier crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_device_get_object_path()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse libvirtd lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare sbuild scanner video

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Killing the running devkit-disks demon solved the update-notifier issue, so that means there needs to be a way to trigger daemon restarts when the packages are updated.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gdu_device_get_object_path (device=0x0) at gdu-device.c:721
gdu_pool_new () at gdu-pool.c:1144
up_do_hal_init (un=0x0) at gdu.c:217
main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffd8370e88)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Incidentally I had the same thought some days ago, when I packaged a new devicekit-power:

devicekit-power (010+git20090913-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Update to current git to get the upstream-applied version of
    0001-fix-crash-on-freeing-history-data.patch, and drop patch.
  * debian/rules: Disable test suite on build again, it needs a running system
    D-BUS.
  * Add debian/devicekit-power.postinst: Kill old daemon at package configure
    time, to ensure that the new one will run from then on.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:35:59 +0200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Let's keep this bug for -power, and use bug 403192 for devicekit-disks.