gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in fputs()

Bug #899617 reported by Dan Wood
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #898874: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in fputs(). Edit Remove
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This bug affects 17 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gksu (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Happened after clicking a launcher (for Spotify) in Unity dock.

(Spotify launched successfully. I don't know why gksu was invoked.)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gksu 2.0.2-6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-2.6-generic 3.2.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-2-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 3 15:09:24 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gksu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gksu --message <span\ weight="bold"\ size="larger">Please\ enter\ your\ password\ to\ access\ problem\ reports\ of\ system\ programs</span> /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x186321: mov (%eax),%ecx
 PC (0x00186321) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gksu
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 fputs () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 gksu_sudo_fuller () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
 gksu_run_fuller () from /usr/lib/libgksu2.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in fputs()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-03 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Dan Wood (dan-wood) wrote :
visibility: private → public
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gksu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

Could someone please install libc6-dbg package and get a better backtrace?

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Per-Inge (per-inge-hallin) wrote : Re: [Bug 899617] Re: gksu crashed with SIGSEGV in fputs()

I installed libc6-dbg and got a bug which I reported as bug #900268.
I tried to get the bug by starting Spotify, but that went OK.
The crash did not happened in the same place as in bug 899617.

Hope this is of some use.

On 12/05/2011 05:05 AM, Dave Lentz wrote:
> Could someone please install libc6-dbg package and get a better
> backtrace?
>

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote :

I installed libc6-dbg, I'm waiting to see if I have the same crash again.

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