Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[Abhinav Joshi]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install `disper` package
2. Run `disper -l`

Expected results:
* program works as on 16.04 LTS

Actual results:
* program does not work and crashed with
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: disper 0.3.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jan 10 14:56:40 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (262 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: disper
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-11 (59 days ago)

[wvengen (wvengen)]

Thanks for your bug report, I can confirm this.

[Kevin (kevin999)]

I have the same problem with ubuntu 17.10.

[Leo Simon (leosimon)]

I have the same problem with ubuntu 18.04

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-26 (59 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
Package: disper 0.3.1-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Tags: bionic
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

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[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

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[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

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[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Apport crash is attached

[John Straw (jestraw)]

There's a patch which fixes this problem for me at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/disper/blob/7c60c3c00505b9bba9593f0b538ef1b0a72268f5/f/disper_0.3.1-fix-misbehavior-bug-1531704.diff

[Stéphane Gourichon (stephane-gourichon-lpad)]

Notice that the "Fix Released" mention here means that the bug is "fixed" by removing the package altogether form Debian.

> as the package disper has just been removed from the Debian archive
> unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
> that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

Reasons in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946182 : unmaintained, broken, dead upstream, depends on Python 2