software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxa_allocate_exception()

[Arto Kekki]

Binary package hint: software-center

I'm using:

Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

The problem is, that I can not start the Software Center. It didn-t start evenn I tried with: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 software-center

I had problems with the software center earlier also, but they were fixed by updating the system. The same problem came back after an update some time yesterday (March 25th, +2 GMT).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.24.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 26 11:38:58 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110208)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_GB:en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fc91a953244 <__cxa_allocate_exception+36>: addl $0x1,0x8(%rax)
 PC (0x7fc91a953244) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "0x8(%rax)" (0x00000018) 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/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 Xapian::Database::Database(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /usr/lib/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 2011-03-21 (4 days ago)
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StacktraceTop:
 __cxa_allocate_exception () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 Xapian::Database::Database (this=0x2f42360, path=...) at ../backends/dbfactory.cc:343
 _wrap_new_Database__SWIG_1 (self=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at ../../../../python/modern/xapian_wrap.cc:25493
 _wrap_new_Database (self=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at ../../../../python/modern/xapian_wrap.cc:25602
 ext_do_call (f=<value optimized out>, throwflag=<value optimized out>) at ../Python/ceval.c:4323

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Arto. Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 259219, so it is being marked as such. If you look at bug 259219, you'll see that the fix for this bug has been released, and you can get the fix by upgrading your system to the latest Natty packages. Do do this, please use update-manager or type the following at the command line:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Please let us know if you still encounter this problem after a full upgrade. And thanks again!