pptp crashed with SIGSEGV

[Paul Crawford]

Binary package hint: pptp-linux

Ubuntu 10.04 i386 running on AMD dual core CPU.

I enabled apport and captured a crash report, maybe this is a duplicate of Bug #288987 ?

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pptp-linux 1.7.2-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 7 22:58:16 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/pptp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/pptp eu1.vpn.giganews.com --nolaunchpppd --logstring nm-pptp-service-3797
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x804d3f0: mov (%eax,%edx,4),%esi
 PC (0x0804d3f0) ok
 source "(%eax,%edx,4)" (0xc0f09994) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%esi" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pptp-linux
StacktraceTop:
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Title: pptp crashed with SIGSEGV
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[Paul Crawford (psc-sat)]

This was the contents of syslog at the time:

Oct 7 22:58:01 paul-ubuntu pptp[3808]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: buffering packet 656 (expecting 649, lost or reordered)
Oct 7 22:58:01 paul-ubuntu pptp[3808]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: buffering packet 657 (expecting 649, lost or reordered)
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pptp[3817]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[logecho:pptp_ctrl.c:677]: Echo Request received.
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pptp[3817]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 6 'Echo-Reply'
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pptp[3817]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:551]: read error: Connection reset by peer
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu kernel: [ 1741.291299] pptpcm[3817]: segfault at c0f09994 ip 0804d3f0 sp bfebc570 error 5 in pptp[8048000+e000]
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pptp[3817]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:258]: Closing connection (shutdown)
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pptp[3817]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[pptp_send_ctrl_packet:pptp_ctrl.c:622]: write error: Broken pipe
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pptp[3817]: nm-pptp-service-3797 log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:79]: Closing connection (call state)
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pppd[3804]: Modem hangup
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pppd[3804]: Connect time 1.0 minutes.
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pppd[3804]: Sent 22835 bytes, received 815927 bytes.
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pppd[3804]: MPPE disabled
Oct 7 22:58:16 paul-ubuntu pppd[3804]: Connection terminated.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #205684, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.