Mintinstall chrashes with segmentation fault

[Daniel Dekovic]

When I run from xterm minstall it crash with following output:

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gksudo mintinstall
add_categories took 2.295 ms
build_matched_packages took 0.410 ms
18946
add_packages took 3735.732 ms
add_reviews took 710.196 ms
__init__ took 4755.239 ms
show_category took 12.292 ms
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:258: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
  def get_role_description(self, transaction):
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:525: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  wTree.get_widget("main_window").show_all()

(mintinstall.py:18941): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault
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11 (katya)
 mintinstall 7.3.2
2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[Daniel Dekovic (d-dekovic)]

After upgrade to mintinstall 7.3.3. it crash again with segfault.

sudo mintinstall
[sudo] password for daniel:
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:250: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
  def get_status_description(self, transaction):
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:258: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
  def get_role_description(self, transaction):
add_categories took 3.303 ms
build_matched_packages took 0.540 ms
19468
add_packages took 3953.451 ms
add_reviews took 1174.973 ms
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:525: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  wTree.get_widget("main_window").show_all()
__init__ took 5436.699 ms
show_category took 15.930 ms

(mintinstall.py:19459): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed
Overwriting reviews file in /home/daniel/.linuxmint/mintinstall/reviews.list
update_reviews took 466.162 ms
show_category took 325.960 ms
show_package took 878.567 ms
Segmentation fault
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env
ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/tmp/orbit-daniel
SSH_AGENT_PID=1842
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=053520f9b7950671451e8feb0000000a-1307869686.494466-800644040
WINDOWID=67108894
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-U2KvMC
GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module
USER=daniel
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-U2KvMC/ssh
SESSION_MANAGER=local/heroina:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1809,unix/heroina:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1809
USERNAME=daniel
DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/gnome.default.path
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
PWD=/home/daniel
GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT=hr
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=1790
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8
MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/gnome.mandatory.path
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=libappmenu.so
COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE=ubuntu
GDMSESSION=gnome
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/daniel
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
LOGNAME=daniel
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-SjP36na83F,guid=ed03f617567358640211cb1400000037
WINDOWPATH=7
DISPLAY=:0
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-daniel-ciIuMh/database
_=/usr/bin/env

[Cristian Contescu (ckristi)]

Here's a dmesg output after mintInstall crashes:

[ 1397.699118] mintinstall[2961]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f6f2fa6b6b0 sp 00007fffaffe4908 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f6f2fa47000+42000]

[Giovanni Beltrame (giovanni-beltrame)]

I have the same problem, but it doesn't appear to always be in libdbus:

[147703.794934] mintinstall[14090]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f772f3797bc sp 00007fff5bf6cd58 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f772f353000+42000]
[147948.528121] mintinstall[23010]: segfault at 4 ip 00007effb6cd06b0 sp 00007fff538845d8 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7effb6cac000+42000]
[148083.957485] mintinstall[27933]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fc2aab8c6b0 sp 00007fff18214d68 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7fc2aab68000+42000]
[148319.869645] mintinstall[4783]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fcd790f76b0 sp 00007fcd78a97b98 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7fcd790d3000+42000]
[148552.857571] mintinstall[13099]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f887e4d36b0 sp 00007fff6ac93348 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f887e4af000+42000]
[148722.634250] mintinstall[19626]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f0d5b5956b0 sp 00007f0d5af35b98 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f0d5b571000+42000]
[149367.852036] mintinstall[10920]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f6c0fd416b0 sp 00007fff6a5d7038 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f6c0fd1d000+42000]
[149870.603164] mintinstall[30546]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f6a7ac9f8da sp 00007f6a6798bb10 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0[7f6a7ac3f000+f4000]
[150191.622561] mintinstall[10142]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f08d68226b0 sp 00007fff6c13a478 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f08d67fe000+42000]
[150996.936785] mintinstall[7752]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fd8fe1006b0 sp 00007fffd3b9ded8 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7fd8fe0dc000+42000]
[151038.952622] mintinstall[9351]: segfault at 4 ip 00007f55b60636b0 sp 00007fff165cbd48 error 6 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7f55b603f000+42000]
[151146.309799] mintinstall[13704]: segfault at 12100000000 ip 00000000004b65af sp 00007f16196cbe70 error 4 in python2.7[400000+233000]
[151244.232231] mintinstall[17225]: segfault at 12100000000 ip 00000000004b65af sp 00007f1cb5699e70 error 4 in python2.7[400000+233000]
[152222.300715] mintinstall[20532]: segfault at 54 ip 00007fdcbf7598a5 sp 00007fdcbf0f6b30 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[7fdcbf732000+42000]

Given that glib and libdbus are being used by python-dbus, I am pointing my finger there, but I am having a hard time debugging this.