gnome-software crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

[Cristian Aravena Romero]

Update and crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-software 3.20.1+git20160426.1.a976144-ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.6.0-040600-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Jun 3 15:32:25 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-software
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-26 (313 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150723)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-software
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:106
 as_utils_search_token_valid () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappstream-glib.so.8
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappstream-glib.so.8
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappstream-glib.so.8
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappstream-glib.so.8
Title: gnome-software crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:106
 as_utils_search_token_valid (token=token@entry=0x0) at as-utils.c:1302
 as_app_add_token_internal (app=0x7fcf049a09f0, value=0x0, match_flag=AS_APP_TOKEN_MATCH_MIMETYPE) at as-app.c:4434
 as_app_add_token (match_flag=AS_APP_TOKEN_MATCH_MIMETYPE, allow_split=0, value=<optimized out>, app=0x7fcf049a09f0) at as-app.c:4468
 as_app_create_token_cache_target (app=app@entry=0x7fcf049a09f0, donor=donor@entry=0x7fcf049a09f0) at as-app.c:4557

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there are 3 reports on the error tracker about that issue https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/7dd96145bd6e66e47273f3924cb3f39588cf2679

[martyfelker (martyfelker-gmail)]

Not fixed in Yakkety

[Iain Lane (laney)]

The version of as-glib with the fix is uploaded now.

It happened because file-roller was uploaded with MimeType=...application/vnd.squashfs;;application/vnd.snap; in its .desktop file. Spot the empty element.

The bug only affected yakkety.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package file-roller - 3.20.2-0ubuntu4

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file-roller (3.20.2-0ubuntu4) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/squashfs.patch: Don't add an empty element to the MimeType
    list. (LP: #1588950)

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:53:34 +0100