apparmor_status crashed with SIGSEGV in Perl_re_compile()

[Marcel van der Boom (HS-Development BV)]

Binary package hint: apparmor

Not sure what to report as extra information. There was no apparent related action.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apparmor-utils 2.5.1~rc1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-21.31-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-21-generic i686
ApparmorStatusOutput: Error: command /usr/sbin/apparmor_status failed with exit code -11:
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Sep 16 10:08:47 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/apparmor_status
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-21-generic root=UUID=bfe42e41-421e-46be-a5fe-b2a4817fa579 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet
SegvAnalysis: Failure: 'dx'
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: apparmor
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 Perl_re_compile ()
Title: apparmor_status crashed with SIGSEGV in Perl_re_compile()
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[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Hi, thanks for taking the time to report this issue. I'm not sure what's gone wrong with the apparmor_status utility such that it caused perl to SEGV; however, in later releases, the apparmor_status tool was rewritten in python, so this specific failure cannot recur. Closing as fixed.