BEAST crashes on launch

[Quuton]

Binary package hint: beast

BEAST crashes on startup in Ibex alpha 1 amd64 with the following terminal output:

*** buffer overflow detected ***: beast terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7fd16c2507d7]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fd16c24e6a0]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fd16c24d49d]
beast[0x400ec8]
beast[0x400c56]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7fd16c16f466]
beast[0x400979]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00402000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 360470 /usr/bin/beast
00601000-00602000 r--p 00001000 08:02 360470 /usr/bin/beast
00602000-00603000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 360470 /usr/bin/beast
00603000-00624000 rw-p 00603000 00:00 0 [heap]
7fd16bf3a000-7fd16bf50000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 66810 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fd16bf50000-7fd16c14f000 ---p 00016000 08:02 66810 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fd16c14f000-7fd16c150000 r--p 00015000 08:02 66810 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fd16c150000-7fd16c151000 rw-p 00016000 08:02 66810 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fd16c151000-7fd16c2ba000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 65559 /lib/libc-2.8.90.so
7fd16c2ba000-7fd16c4b9000 ---p 00169000 08:02 65559 /lib/libc-2.8.90.so
7fd16c4b9000-7fd16c4bd000 r--p 00168000 08:02 65559 /lib/libc-2.8.90.so
7fd16c4bd000-7fd16c4be000 rw-p 0016c000 08:02 65559 /lib/libc-2.8.90.so
7fd16c4be000-7fd16c4c3000 rw-p 7fd16c4be000 00:00 0
7fd16c4c3000-7fd16c4e2000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 65553 /lib/ld-2.8.90.so
7fd16c6c7000-7fd16c6c9000 rw-p 7fd16c6c7000 00:00 0
7fd16c6de000-7fd16c6e1000 rw-p 7fd16c6de000 00:00 0
7fd16c6e1000-7fd16c6e2000 r--p 0001e000 08:02 65553 /lib/ld-2.8.90.so
7fd16c6e2000-7fd16c6e3000 rw-p 0001f000 08:02 65553 /lib/ld-2.8.90.so
7fff746cd000-7fff746e2000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0 [stack]
7fff747fe000-7fff747ff000 r-xp 7fff747fe000 00:00 0 [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]
Aborted

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

The problem seems to be due to compiler optimisations. As a work-around solution, I simple turned it off, but some more investigations would be needed to identify the real cause of the problem and rectify it properly.
In the meantime, pls. open a new bug report if there is some unwanted side-effect due to this change.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package beast - 0.7.1-5.1ubuntu1

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beast (0.7.1-5.1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Turn off optimisation (LP: #245818).
    Some more investigations would be needed to identify the real cause of
    the problem and rectify it properly.
  * debian/patches/202_gcc43.diff:
    - add locale.h header file to
      shell/bsescm.c
      beast-gtk/bstmain.c
      beast-gtk/testgui.c
     (fix FTBFS with latest gcc 4.3.1).
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:57:05 +0200

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Reopening, looks like this is the correct solution:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452604

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package beast - 0.7.1-5.1ubuntu2

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beast (0.7.1-5.1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Turn on optimisation again.
  * Add patch debian/patches/203_fix_buffer_overflow.diff:
    properly fix the buffer overflow problem (LP: #245818).
    See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452604.
    Thanks to Tim Janik for the patch.

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:49:34 +0200