soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in cppu::_copyConstructAnyFromData() [libreoffice --help crashes]

[Michael Mueller]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ libreoffice --help
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.16-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 12 18:07:37 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120724.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin --help
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb72be0e0 <cppu::_copyConstructAnyFromData(_uno_Any*, void*, _typelib_TypeDescriptionReference*, _typelib_TypeDescription*, void (*)(void*), _uno_Mapping*)+361>: pushl 0x20(%eax)
 PC (0xb72be0e0) ok
 source "0x20(%eax)" (0x00000020) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: libreoffice
Title: soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in cppu::_copyConstructAnyFromData()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Michael Mueller, thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. This is reproducible via:
libreoffice --help
libreoffice -?
libreoffice -h

Marking Triaged Medium due to this being consistently reproducible. This is a regression from Precise where this problem does not occur.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

apt-cache policy libreoffice
libreoffice:
  Installed: 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Michael Mueller (mmueller12345)]

As far as I remember, I reproduced the error the way described in the other bug. Therefore, I just hope this segfault does not occur for other users.
Have a nice day.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

what "other" bug report is that? Do we have a test case to reproduce?

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libreoffice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]