brother cups wrapper driver crashes on startup

[Jockel]

Binary package hint: brother-cups-wrapper-common

Package version 1.0.0-10-0ubuntu5
Message "Entschuldigung, das Programm 'brcupsconfpt1' wurde unerwartet beendet".
Following shutdown/startup does not succeed, rootfs on ext4 corrupt.
Error is not reproduceable, occurs sporadic (may be triggered by printer switched on/off), seldom with such system crash.

Printer for cups configured:
Brother MFC-260C via usb,
Brother HL-2030 via usb,
HP ColorLaserjet 2550L via TCP (AppSocket).
All switched off during system startup.

Further pakages installed and configuered:
- from ubuntu:
brother-cups-wrapper-extra 1.2.1-0ubuntu3
brother-cups-wrapper-laser 2.0.1-2-0ubuntu5
brother-lpr-drivers-common 1.0.0-4-0ubuntu1
brother-lpr-drivers-extra 1.2.0-2-0ubuntu3
brother-lpr-drivers-laser 2.0.1-3-0ubuntu3
- from brother solutions:
brmfcfaxcups 1.0.0-2
brmfcfaxlpd 1.0.0-2
brscan2 0.2.4-4

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/Brother/Printer/mfc260c/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1 terminated
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Sep 5 10:41:30 2009
Dependencies:
 brother-lpr-drivers-common 1.0.0-4-0ubuntu1
 findutils 4.4.2-1
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-3ubuntu3
 libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu8
 libgcc1 1:4.4.1-3ubuntu3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/Brother/Printer/brcupsconfpt1
Package: brother-cups-wrapper-common 1.0.0-10-0ubuntu5
ProcCmdline: /usr/Brother/Printer/mfc260c/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1 MFC260C /etc/cups/ppd/TintenPisser_MFC-260C.ppd 0 media=A4\ job-uuid=urn:uuid:ad0f3ab0-4f68-3254-47b0-50aaa50cf483\ job-originating-host-name=localhost\ Copies=1 mfc260c
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: brother-cups-wrapper-common
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __fortify_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: brcupsconfpt1 assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/Brother/Printer/mfc260c/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1 terminated
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
*__GI_raise (sig=6)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
__libc_message (do_abort=2,
*__GI___fortify_fail (

[Olivier Berten (olivier-berten)]

Most probably related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-cups-wrapper-extra/+bug/387274

[Pantelis Panayiotou (p-panayiotou)]

It looks like this crash happens every time I print a test page. With other documents, sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. Printing doesn't seem to be affected, ie the document prints normally.

My printer is an MFC-440CN, attached to my desktop computer which runs Ubuntu 9.04.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 423817, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.