doxygen assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: doxygen terminated

[Christopher Backhouse]

Binary package hint: doxygen

Reproducible. Running doxygen on own code.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: doxygen terminated
CheckboxSubmission: a681fcf6b9e1fe3688b4f273cfa1bb89
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Dec 6 22:47:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/doxygen
Package: doxygen 1.6.1-1
ProcCmdline: doxygen Doxyfile
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic-pae
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: doxygen
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 *__GI_raise (sig=6)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=2,
 *__GI___fortify_fail (
Title: doxygen assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: doxygen terminated
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic-pae i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner video
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2461): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2582): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2584): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2565): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window
 (gnome-power-manager:2580): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

[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 (

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please could you provide the files to reproduce the crash?

[Christopher Backhouse (cjbackhouse)]

On further investigation, this has something to do with my .hg directory rather than anything to do with the code being documented.

I can reproduce the crash with

cd doxgen_crasher
doxygen Doxyfile

I haven't gone through the .hg directory to find which file exactly triggers it.

[Christopher Backhouse (cjbackhouse)]

> I haven't gone through the .hg directory to find which file exactly triggers it.

I tell a lie. The crash is triggered by the file "plaibuildlib.d" which is some binary junk, but is matched by FILE_PATTERNS in my (autogenerated) Doxyfile. The attachment contains a simplified testcase with just this file.

So, it's basically my problem for trying to document a non-source file, but I assume that even so doxygen shouldn't outright crash.

[reini (rrumberger)]

I have only source files I'm trying to document and am getting the same crash (see bug #579951) in Lucid.

[reini (rrumberger)]

Marking as new to get some attention and also since the requested files have been provided.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported