updater crashes when a cash update introduces a new package dependency

[Harald Sitter]

updater crashes when a cash update introduces a new package dependency

[Budnikav86 (budnikav86)]

Application: muon-updater (2.1.2)
KDE Platform Version: 4.11.5
Qt Version: 4.8.4
Operating System: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
Distribution: Ubuntu 13.10

-- Information about the crash:
- What I was doing when the application crashed:
I had installed recent updates for some apps and after installation Muon crushes.

-- Backtrace:
Application: Muon Update Manager (muon-updater), signal: Aborted
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f5b71b537c0 (LWP 2688))]

Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f5b5eb85700 (LWP 2689)):
#0 0x00007fffc7e85a2f in clock_gettime ()
#1 0x00007f5b6f1d196d in clock_gettime (clock_id=<optimized out>, tp=<optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/clock_gettime.c:115
#2 0x00007f5b6f85d757 in do_gettime (frac=0x7f5b5eb84b00, sec=0x7f5b5eb84af8) at tools/qelapsedtimer_unix.cpp:123
#3 qt_gettime () at tools/qelapsedtimer_unix.cpp:140
#4 0x00007f5b6f936fe5 in updateCurrentTime (this=0x7f5b58002860) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:354
#5 QTimerInfoList::timerWait (this=0x7f5b58002860, tm=...) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:461
#6 0x00007f5b6f93582c in timerSourcePrepareHelper (src=<optimized out>, timeout=0x7f5b5eb84bb4) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:136
#7 0x00007f5b6f9358d5 in timerSourcePrepare (source=<optimized out>, timeout=<optimized out>) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:169
#8 0x00007f5b6c539d4d in g_main_context_prepare () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9 0x00007f5b6c53a5c3 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007f5b6c53a7ac in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00007f5b6f935a76 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents (this=0x7f5b580008c0, flags=...) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:426
#12 0x00007f5b6f9075ef in QEventLoop::processEvents (this=this@entry=0x7f5b5eb84d70, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:149
#13 0x00007f5b6f9078e5 in QEventLoop::exec (this=this@entry=0x7f5b5eb84d70, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:204
#14 0x00007f5b6f80688f in QThread::exec (this=this@entry=0x279da00) at thread/qthread.cpp:542
#15 0x00007f5b6f8e8d13 in QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::run (this=0x279da00) at io/qfilesystemwatcher_inotify.cpp:265
#16 0x00007f5b6f808f2f in QThreadPrivate::start (arg=0x279da00) at thread/qthread_unix.cpp:338
#17 0x00007f5b6ca12f6e in start_thread (arg=0x7f5b5eb85700) at pthread_create.c:311
#18 0x00007f5b6f1bc9cd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:113

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f5b71b537c0 (LWP 2688)):
[KCrash Handler]
#6 0x00007f5b6f0f8f77 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
#7 0x00007f5b6f0fc5e8 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:90
#8 0x00007f5b6f7fe912 in qt_message_output (msgType=msgType@entry=QtFatalMsg, buf=0x4bf1d88 "ASSERT failure in QList<T>::at: \"index out of range\", file /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qlist.h, line 469") at global/qglobal.cpp:2347
#9 0x00007f5b6f7fec79 in qt_message(QtMsgType, const char *, typedef __va_list_tag __va_list_tag *) (msgType=msgType@entry=QtFatalMsg, msg=msg@entry=0x7f5b6f969aa8 "ASSERT failure in %s: \"%s\", file %s, line %d", ap=ap@entry=0x7fffc7e4...

[adaptee (adaptee)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 325109 ***

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Actually not a duplicate as such (the reason I know that is because I just hit that crash mysefl :P)

While not obvious from the backtrace this crash is caused by
> void ApplicationUpdates::calculateUpdates()
not being able to resolve the package. The reason it cannot resolve it apparenlty is because ApplicationBackend doesn't refresh m_appList on reload.

How to reproduce:
- install a package foo
- m_appList now contains foo, but not bar
- package gets update that introduces dependency on completely new package bar
- a manual check for new updates is run via muon-updater
- the package cache for the updater now contains both the new foo and the completly new bar, m_appList still only contains foo
- resolution fails and assert fails

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Created attachment 85093
test archive to trigger the bug

I am attaching a tarball with a simple test archive with two debs and a Packages list that allows the bug to be easily reproduced:

- install kubuntu-docs
- completely update system
- extract tarball somewhere
- edit sources.list and add the following with adjusted path as needed (mind the triple forward slash after file)
> deb file:///home/me/bug330999 ./
- open muon-updater and use ctrl-r to refresh the crash
- observe crash

the tarball contains a fake kubuntu-docs package that depends on the other package (which is not present elsewhere thus not in the cache at startup), the cache refresh will pick up the new fake kubuntu-docs and try to resolve it's depdencies and fail the assert.

(please note that for re-testing you need to delete the extracted directory, apt-get update, and extract it again to make sure the fake packages are gone from the cache)

[adaptee (adaptee)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 325109 ***

[Rohan Garg (rohangarg)]

I can't reproduce the crash with muon-updater 2.2.0

[Aleix Pol (aleixpol-kde)]

Harald, can you check if it's fixed as Rohan suggested?

[Andrew-crouthamel (andrew-crouthamel)]

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[Andrew-crouthamel (andrew-crouthamel)]

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

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