nano crashed with SIGSEGV in get_sysdep_segment_value()

[Wellington Torrejais da Silva]

When update

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: nano 2.8.6-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-13.19-generic 4.11.12
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 9 20:22:31 2017
ExecutablePath: /bin/nano
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-09 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170806)
ProcCmdline: nano /etc/defaults/grub
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fdda72da0f5 <_nl_find_msg+725>: mov (%r12),%rdi
 PC (0x7fdda72da0f5) ok
 source "(%r12)" (0x30b000003019) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdi" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nano
StacktraceTop:
 get_sysdep_segment_value (name=0x7fdda7cd3364 <error: Não é possível acessar a memória no endereço 0x7fdda7cd3364>) at loadmsgcat.c:727
 _nl_load_domain (domain_file=0x55d7c83aafc0, domainbinding=domainbinding@entry=0x0) at loadmsgcat.c:1002
 _nl_find_domain (dirname=dirname@entry=0x7fdda743ca40 <_nl_default_dirname> "/usr/share/locale", locale=locale@entry=0x7ffcc307a400 "pt", domainname=domainname@entry=0x7ffcc307a420 "LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", domainbinding=domainbinding@entry=0x0) at finddomain.c:173
 __dcigettext (domainname=0x7fdda7435a40 <_libc_intl_domainname> "libc", msgid1=0x7fdda7435dfd "No such file or directory", msgid2=msgid2@entry=0x0, plural=plural@entry=0, n=n@entry=0, category=category@entry=5) at dcigettext.c:722
 __GI___dcgettext (domainname=<optimized out>, msgid=<optimized out>, category=category@entry=5) at dcgettext.c:47
Title: nano crashed with SIGSEGV in get_sysdep_segment_value()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 get_sysdep_segment_value (name=0x7fdda7cd3364 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fdda7cd3364>) at loadmsgcat.c:727
 _nl_load_domain (domain_file=0x55d7c83aafc0, domainbinding=domainbinding@entry=0x0) at loadmsgcat.c:1002
 _nl_find_domain (dirname=dirname@entry=0x7fdda743ca40 <_nl_default_dirname> "/usr/share/locale", locale=locale@entry=0x7ffcc307a400 "pt", domainname=domainname@entry=0x7ffcc307a420 "LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", domainbinding=domainbinding@entry=0x0) at finddomain.c:173
 __dcigettext (domainname=0x7fdda7435a40 <_libc_intl_domainname> "libc", msgid1=0x7fdda7435dfd "No such file or directory", msgid2=msgid2@entry=0x0, plural=plural@entry=0, n=n@entry=0, category=category@entry=5) at dcigettext.c:722
 __GI___dcgettext (domainname=<optimized out>, msgid=<optimized out>, category=category@entry=5) at dcgettext.c:47

[Benno Schulenberg (bennoschulenberg)]

The crash was in libc (while looking up the translation of a string), not in nano itself. Could it be that you updated libc shortly before the crash?

As this crash happened in an alpha release, and if you cannot reproduce it any more in 17.10 proper, I think this bug can be closed.