software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()

[Gaurav Butola]

Binary package hint: software-center

I don't exactly know what's causing this bug but I am unable to Open 'Ubuntu Software Center'. I am using fully updated 11.04

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.23.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Mar 12 20:11:23 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110216)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center openshot/OpenShot\ Video\ Editor
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x18ad6bd <__cxa_allocate_exception+61>: addl $0x1,0x4(%eax)
 PC (0x018ad6bd) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "0x4(%eax)" (0x0000000c) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 __cxa_allocate_exception () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
 Xapian::Database::Database(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/_xapian.so
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
 PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-09 (2 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

there is a workaround in the description of the duplicate bug report.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Julian Taylor <email address hidden>wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 259219 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259219
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 259219
> Broken TLS support in libGL.so
> * You can subscribe to bug 259219 by following this link:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/259219/+subscribe
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to
> software-center in ubuntu.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733856
>
> Title:
> software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()
>
> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: software-center
>
> I don't exactly know what's causing this bug but I am unable to Open
> 'Ubuntu Software Center'. I am using fully updated 11.04
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: software-center 3.1.23.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> CrashCounter: 1
> Date: Sat Mar 12 20:11:23 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110216)
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center openshot/OpenShot\
> Video\ Editor
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SegvAnalysis:
> Segfault happened at: 0x18ad6bd <__cxa_allocate_exception+61>: addl
> $0x1,0x4(%eax)
> PC (0x018ad6bd) ok
> source "$0x1" ok
> destination "0x4(%eax)" (0x0000000c) not located in a known VMA region
> (needed writable region)!
> SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: software-center
> StacktraceTop:
> __cxa_allocate_exception () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> Xapian::Database::Database(std::basic_string<char,
> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from
> /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22
> ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/_xapian.so
> PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
> PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
> Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-09 (2 days ago)
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
>