cupsd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_message_iter_append_basic()

[Christie Martin]

Binary package hint: cups

I had just finished a distribution update and upon logging in I received this error message.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cups 1.4.6-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
CupsErrorLog:
 E [08/Apr/2011:04:42:24 -0700] Avahi client failed, closing client to allow a clean restart
 E [08/Apr/2011:04:43:36 -0700] [Job 185] Job aborted because the destination printer/class has gone away.
 E [08/Apr/2011:05:09:34 -0700] [Job 184] Unable to queue job for destination "officejet-4200-series@192.168.1.64"!
Date: Fri Apr 8 04:10:01 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/cupsd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No destinations added.
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Compaq Presario
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 officejet-4200-series-Fax: HP Fax hpijs
 officejet-4200-series: HP Officejet 4200 Series, hpcups 3.11.1
ProcAttrCurrent: /usr/sbin/cupsd (enforce)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/cupsd -F
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=ea9408e0-b5cc-4dfb-9133-f4d339387d20 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x276706: movdqu (%edi),%xmm1
 PC (0x00276706) ok
 source "(%edi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm1" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: cups
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? ()
Title: cupsd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_message_iter_append_basic()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-30 (9 days ago)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 12/03/2001
dmi.bios.vendor: Compaq
dmi.bios.version: 686Y2 v2.06
dmi.board.name: 077Ch
dmi.board.vendor: Compaq
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: U202BBXZB016
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Compaq
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnCompaq:bvr686Y2v2.06:bd12/03/2001:svnCompaq:pnPresario:pvrCTOAAAAA:rvnCompaq:rn077Ch:rvr:cvnCompaq:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Presario
dmi.product.version: CTOAAAAA
dmi.sys.vendor: Compaq

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __strlen_sse2_bsf () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strlen-sse2-bsf.S:52
 marshal_string (str=0x21d82e34, insert_at=0, type=115, value=0x21d461d8, byte_order=108, pos_after=0xbf9233ac) at dbus-marshal-basic.c:778
 _dbus_marshal_write_basic (str=0x21d82e34, insert_at=0, type=115, value=0x21d461d8, byte_order=108, pos_after=0xbf9233ac) at dbus-marshal-basic.c:858
 _dbus_type_writer_write_basic_no_typecode (writer=0xbf92339c, type=115, value=0x21d461d8) at dbus-marshal-recursive.c:1589
 _dbus_type_writer_write_basic (writer=0xbf92339c, type=115, value=0x21d461d8) at dbus-marshal-recursive.c:2311

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Tim, can this be caused by the Avahi patch? Are there any updates/fixes for the Avahi patch?

[Tim Waugh (twaugh)]

Possibly it is; difficult to say what's going wrong without a symbolic stack trace.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

It is possible that the proposed fix of bug #759031 can also fix this bug.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Potentially fixed with the upload below. Can you test this version and see if it still happens? Thanks!

cups (1.4.6-5) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Till Kamppeter ]
  * debian/patches/cups-avahi.dpatch: Updated the patch to add Avahi support
    to the newest state of the art from
    http://twaugh.fedorapeople.org/cups-avahi/ (upstream of the patch),
    in the hope to fix CUPS crashers like LP #759031, #754567, #711875,
    #751770.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/local/apparmor-profile: Add cap_dac_read_search for cups-pdf. This
    circumvents the sandboxing even more, but with cups-pdf's architecture
    there is no way around it. (LP: #295536)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:22:20 +0200

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