gwibber crashed with SIGSEGV in webkit_web_frame_load_string()

[Eric Casteleijn]

Binary package hint: gwibber

Happens when I execute a search in a new stream.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Feb 9 17:37:32 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gwibber
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gwibber 2.29.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-genusername-pae
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb5531391 <webkit_web_frame_load_string+65>: cmp (%edx),%eax
 PC (0xb5531391) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gwibber
StacktraceTop:
 webkit_web_frame_load_string ()
 webkit_web_view_load_string ()
 webkit_web_view_load_html_string ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/webkit/webkit.so
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
Title: gwibber crashed with SIGSEGV in webkit_web_frame_load_string()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic-pae i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

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StacktraceTop:
 webkit_web_frame_load_string (frame=0x9dcd400,
 webkit_web_view_load_string (webView=0x9db1038,
 webkit_web_view_load_html_string (webView=0x9db1038,
 ?? ()
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx (f=0xbc9bd1c, throwflag=0)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Can you please update to the latest version of gwibber in Lucid and try to reproduce this issue. Many this type of crash issues are fixed in Gwibber 2.29.91

[Eric Casteleijn (thisfred)]

I can confirm this no longer happens, thanks!