xchat-gnome crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()

[Pedro Villavicencio]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

xchat-crashes on opening it, looks like a problem with the translations, see bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487503 ; Backtrace is similar.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xchat-gnome 1:0.26.1+git20101206.557c940-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 4afb8c68a8fa5938a80183a271a939ea
CheckboxSystem: c460f5739f7c8446c3d18c3e0e7c5745
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri May 20 08:01:02 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xchat-gnome
ProcCmdline: xchat-gnome
ProcCwd: /home/pedro
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_CL:es:en_GB:en
 LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: xchat-gnome
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
 abort () at abort.c:92
 pevent_make_pntevts ()
 ?? ()
Title: xchat-gnome crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-01 (108 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare video

[David Planella (dpm)]

This seems related to a translation. Could someone from the Spanish team try to reproduce it? It could be that a new translation in the latest Natty language pack introduced the bug.

[Paco Molinero (franciscomol)]

I tried to reproduce the problem but nothings happens. xchat-gnome works fine in my Natty. Anyway I fixed some translation mistakes in case they might be the cause.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We have a meeting in our loco community yesterday and this problem was reproducible for a lot of the people there, workaround is to do a : LANGUAGE=en_EN xchat-gnome or LANGUAGE=C xchat-gnome ; hope it helps, i'm nominating this to Natty.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Hi,

just to add a comment about this issue: some years ago we experienced a similar problem with the Italian translation of xchat-gnome, and the problem was really related to the translation. If I'm not wrong, there could be problems with the strings in xchat-gnome that look like this one:

msgid "-%C10-%C11-%O$t$1 deleted from notify list."

It is easy to add something or to format the string in a way that can crash the application.

Just to let you guys know, in case it might help you.

Ciao.

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

Milo: right, I remember the same happening to the Hungarian xchat a few years back, because of this.

Maybe this string is it: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/xchat-gnome/+pots/xchat-gnome/es/503/+translate

-%C10-%C11-%O$t%C12[%O$1%C12]%O $2
-%C10-%C11-%O$t%C12[%O$1%C12]%0 $2

The last %O is translated as %0, this is suspicious.

[David Planella (dpm)]

El dc 01 de 06 de 2011 a les 16:07 +0000, en/na Gabor Kelemen va
escriure:
> Milo: right, I remember the same happening to the Hungarian xchat a few
> years back, because of this.
>
> Maybe this string is it:
> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/xchat-
> gnome/+pots/xchat-gnome/es/503/+translate
>
> -%C10-%C11-%O$t%C12[%O$1%C12]%O $2
> -%C10-%C11-%O$t%C12[%O$1%C12]%0 $2
>
> The last %O is translated as %0, this is suspicious.
>

Good work in spotting this Gabor.

Could someone in the Spanish team fix that string?

Then testers could export the .mo file from Launchpad, install it
in /usr/share/locale-langpack/es_CL/LC_MESSAGES and see if the crashes
are still reproduceable.

--
David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
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[Paco Molinero (franciscomol)]

The string is fixed

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thanks Paco!

[Jorge González (jorge-gonzalez-gonzalez)]

David: In trunk the translation is different:
#: ../src/common/textevents.h:387
msgid "-%C10-%C11-%O$t%C12[%O$1%C12]%O $2"
msgstr "-%C10-%C11-%O$t%C12[%O$1%C12]%C $2"

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Just to follow up, has this been fixed in the archive? If so, this bug could be closed.

Btw, I also noticed another O/0 change in the translations for pt:

#: ../src/common/textevents.h:51
msgid "%UChannel Users Topic%O"
msgstr "%UCanal Utilizadores Tópico%0"

Should that be:

#: ../src/common/textevents.h:51
msgid "%UChannel Users Topic%O"
msgstr "%UCanal Utilizadores Tópico%O"

?

[Paco Molinero (franciscomol)]

All the O/0 errors were corrected now

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

Bryce: If you see similar problems for another languages, please file bugs against the Ubuntu Translations project.
I just went ahead and filed it upstream, thanks for spotting it: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656420

I'm also marking this as Fix Released as per Pacos comments, language-pack-gnome-es (1:11.04+20110607) in natty-updates should fix this for users too.