[apport] hardinfo crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

[Richard O. Hunt]

Binary package hint: hardinfo

Hardinfo crashed while searching for storage devices.

ProblemType: Crash
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Feb 26 14:16:35 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/hardinfo
Package: hardinfo 0.4.1-8
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/hardinfo
ProcCwd: /home/rhunt
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: hardinfo
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 scan_printers () from /usr/lib/hardinfo/modules/devices.so
 hi_info () from /usr/lib/hardinfo/modules/devices.so
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux rhunt-ubuntu 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev scanner video

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
scan_printers () at ./arch/common/printers.h:71
hi_info (entry=4) at devices.c:80
module_selected_show_info (entry=0x820cf78, reload=0) at shell.c:822
module_selected (ts=0x80c9dc0, data=0x0) at shell.c:933

[Leandro A. F. Pereira (lafp)]

Fixed in version 0.4.2.1.svn30042007-1.

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

This new version seems to crash all the time.
Steps to reproduce a crash (without apport popping up)

Method 1
  1. open an item
  2. open another item
  3. CRASH

Method 2
 1. open summery
 2. CRASH

Method 3
  1. open display item
  2. CRASH

Method 4
  1. open some item that requires scrollbars
  2. scroll

I've attached example output in the terminal, because apport doesn't launch.
Do you need the core-dump as well?

Interesting side-node: generating the report works, so its not the gathering of information that is causing this!

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

After checking out all other bug-reports and duplicates I've found that this is a different bug.
I'll go add my comments to that bug.