Comment 4 for bug 581318

Thank you for your help, and thank you for letting me know about the status. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 6:37 am
Subject: [Bug 581318] Re: devkit-disks-daemon crashed while installing karmic

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu

better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears

to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security

issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to

cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Visibility changed to: Public

** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability

** Tags added: karmic

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devkit-disks-daemon crashed while installing karmic

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581318

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Status in “devicekit-disks” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:

Binary package hint: devicekit-disks

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala via live cd

smooth installation

received an error message informing me of a crash.

it is possible that the error happened before the installation started.

it may have happened because of a user located at ip addresss 127.0.0.1

completely took over my computer necessitating a new installation.

ProblemType: Crash

.etc.fstab:

 aufs / aufs rw 0 0

 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0

 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

Architecture: i386

Date: Sun May 16 09:18:24 2010

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10

ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon

LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)

Lsusb:

 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 09c1:1337 Arris Interactive LLC TOUCHSTONE DEVICE

 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Precision WorkStation 340

Package: devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu3

ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed

boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --

ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon

ProcEnviron:

ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic

SegvAnalysis:

 Segfault happened at: 0x8c5f1d <dbus_g_method_return_error+29>: mov

0x10(%esi),%edi

 PC (0x008c5f1d) ok

 source "0x10(%esi)" (0x00000010) not located in a known VMA region (needed

readable region)!

 destination "%edi" ok

SegvReason: reading NULL VMA

Signal: 11

SourcePackage: devicekit-disks

StacktraceTop:

 dbus_g_method_return_error ()

 ?? ()

 ?? ()

 ?? ()

 ?? ()

Title: devkit-disks-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_g_method_return_error()

Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 07/27/2002

dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

dmi.bios.version: A05

dmi.board.name: Precision WorkStation 340

dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

dmi.chassis.type: 6

dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA05:bd07/27/2002:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnPrecisionWorkStation340:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rnPrecisionWorkStation340:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct6:cvr:

dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation 340

dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

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