soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in _expand_stack_to()

[Morten Kristoffer Hansen]

LibreOffice crashed during startup. The splashscreen was visible for a sort period, then nothing.

This on a fresh upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libreoffice-core 1:5.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 22 21:57:47 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-29 (1819 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin --writer file:///tmp/mozilla_mkhansen0/SGH%20-%20Nyhedsbrev%209.%20%C3%A5rgang%20nr.%205%202017.docx
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<set>
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xa4e39bc5: movb $0x0,(%eax)
 PC (0xa4e39bc5) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%eax)" (0xbf224fe0) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: libreoffice
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
 JNI_CreateJavaVM () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
Title: soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in JNI_CreateJavaVM()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-19 (2 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 _expand_stack_to (bottom=0xbf224fff <error: Cannot access memory at address 0xbf224fff>, bottom@entry=0xbf224000 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0xbf224000>) at ./src/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp:673
 os::Linux::manually_expand_stack (t=0x33dfc00, addr=0xbf224000 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0xbf224000>) at ./src/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp:686
 os::create_attached_thread (thread=0x33dfc00) at ./src/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp:965
 os::create_main_thread (thread=0x33dfc00) at ./src/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp:915
 Thread::set_as_starting_thread (this=0x33dfc00) at ./src/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp:988

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This is bug #1699772.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Note to self: when checking for potential duplicates, ask bug reporters to check for the output of:

    grep enabled ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/config/javasettings_Linux_*.xml

If it looks like:

    <enabled xsi:nil="true"/>

Ask them to edit that file with a text editor and change it to:

    <enabled xsi:nil="false">false</enabled>

And see if that makes the crash go away.