gdb-multiarch assert failure: *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated

[Makis Livadas]

Description: Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (development branch)
Release: 21.04

gdb-multiarch:
  Installed: 10.1-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 10.1-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 10.1-2ubuntu1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I was not expecting this package to run as the crash happened after I reboot my laptop.

I was using this package before reboot with eclipse IDE to debug a remote embedded target, but was not working as expected and was thinking to use arm-none-eabi-gdb instead which don't seem to be in the ubuntu repositories.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: gdb-multiarch 10.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.10.0-14.15-generic 5.10.11
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu59
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 7 02:13:19 2021
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gdb-multiarch
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20210123)
ProcCmdline: gdb-multiarch --interpreter mi2 --nx -q --interpreter console -ex new-ui\ mi\ /dev/pts/1 -ex set\ pagination\ off -ex show\ version
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gdb
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f975a625953 "*** %s ***: terminated\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:155
 __GI___fortify_fail (msg=msg@entry=0x7f975a62593b "stack smashing detected") at fortify_fail.c:26
 __stack_chk_fail () at stack_chk_fail.c:24
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: gdb-multiarch assert failure: *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
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StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f975a625953 "*** %s ***: terminated\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:155
 __GI___fortify_fail (msg=msg@entry=0x7f975a62593b "stack smashing detected") at fortify_fail.c:26
 __stack_chk_fail () at stack_chk_fail.c:24
 i386_unwind_pc (gdbarch=0x556bbf261810, next_frame=0x556bbf1ece70) at /build/gdb-3WMydc/gdb-10.1/gdb/i386-tdep.c:1992
 dwarf2_tailcall_sniffer_first (this_frame=this_frame@entry=0x556bbf1ece70, tailcall_cachep=tailcall_cachep@entry=0x556bbf1ecf70, entry_cfa_sp_offsetp=entry_cfa_sp_offsetp@entry=0x0) at /build/gdb-3WMydc/gdb-10.1/gdb/dwarf2/frame-tailcall.c:387

[Makis Livadas (glivadas)]

This bug seem to be also present in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

arm-none-eabi-gdb works instead of gdb-multiarch in my setup.

I retrieved arm-none-eabi-gdb from the tar release.

arm-none-eabi-gdb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

missing library installed and then it was working.

makis@makis:/usr/bin$ arm-none-eabi-gdb --version
GNU gdb (GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain 10-2020-q4-major) 10.1.90.20201028-git
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

No crashes and I was able to debug my code with eclipse-IDE and arm-none-eabi-gdb

gdb-multiarch does work in debugging similar targets, but not this setup.