assertion failure

Bug #479365 reported by Hugh Hyatt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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samba (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: squid

Ubuntu 9.10
squid version 2.7.STABLE6-2ubuntu2

Som when I start up Ubuntu, I have an outstanding failure, which I try to report, but then I get a dialog box titled "Problem in squid" that says, "The problem cannot be reported: The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes."

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 9 13:01:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: squid 2.7.STABLE6-2ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: squid
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2050): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2050): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2103): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2074): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:2529): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

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Hugh Hyatt (hughhyatt) wrote :
Chuck Short (zulcss)
affects: squid (Ubuntu) → apport (Ubuntu)
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 479365] [NEW] assertion failure

 affects ubuntu/samba
 importance wishlist

Launchpad Bug Tracker [2009-11-10 21:54 -0000]:
> "The problem cannot be reported: The program crashed on an assertion
> failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not
> support reporting these crashes."

This is deliberate, to avoid creating a massive amount of bug reports
which are useless for developers. glibc and glib's assertion messages
are now fixed to set __abort_msg (symbol in glibc) which apport reads.
Apparently samba uses its own assert macros and thus should be updated
to either use the standard C assert or set __abort_msg.

(See 05_store_assert_message.patch in glib2.0 source)

Chuck Short (zulcss)
Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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nudepenguin (clintbrothers) wrote :

Testing 11.04 alpha 2 this is happening at startup.
The problem cannot be reported:
xserver-xorg-core

The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes.

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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