apport-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV in fread()

[Benoit Chalvignac]

Apport crashed while opening evince crash report.

Series of crashes of evince, apport, nautilus and firefox. Started happening after a mistaken update that installed unsupported packages.

Same behavior as in bug #979425, bug #977967 and bug #977917.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apport-gtk 1.23-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-18.31-generic 3.0.26
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Apr 13 18:55:04 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -c /var/crash/_usr_share_apport_apport-gtk.1000.crash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: apport
StacktraceTop:
 fread () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
 PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
Title: apport-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV in fread()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-17 (147 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #975071, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Benoit Chalvignac (benoit-chalvignac)]

Not sure if the mentioned crashes are related to a mistaken upgrade that included unsupported packages. Forced most packages back to the last suported version (oneiric or oeinric-security) but may have missed some and same crashes still happen.

The larger upgrade was motivated by the unstable behavior of the Alt+Tab shortcut.