spewer plugin isn't working on sigsegv

Bug #705341 reported by Didier Roche-Tolomelli
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
compiz (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: compiz

The spewer plugin is supposed to generate a report like:
/tmp/compiz_internal_state{PID} when compiz is segfaulting.

Unfortunatly, this doesn't work:
- enable the plugin
- send a -11 to compiz
-> compiz stops
- nothing in /tmp/compiz_internal_state*

Revision history for this message
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

set that as confirmed as seb tested it as well.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Sam "SmSpillaz" Spilsbury (smspillaz)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Sam "SmSpillaz" Spilsbury (smspillaz)
Revision history for this message
David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

On top of that there is another crasher in the plugin in a printf:

#2 0x0808b52c in vsnprintf (format=0x1adce6b " Startup Notification Id %s\n", ap=0x0) at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:79

See http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/555400/ for the fulll stack.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
Changed in unity:
importance: Medium → Low
no longer affects: unity
no longer affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
assignee: Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) → nobody
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