NetworkManager crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()

[Peter Karlsson Zetterberg]

Using Ubuntu 13.04, using latest updates from Stable. The crash happened about 30 seconds after bootup. Connected to WIFI hotspot provided by Android phone. Not sure if it crashed before the WIFI hotspot became available or just after.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 4 07:53:41 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-20 (133 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.43.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.43.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.43.177 metric 9
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
ProcCmdline: NetworkManager
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: network-manager
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: NetworkManager crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (67 days ago)
UserGroups:

nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 ttyACM0 gsm disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2
 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message (domain=domain@entry=0x0, file=file@entry=0x81072a3 "nm-device-wifi.c", line=line@entry=3181, func=func@entry=0x8109378 <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.22861> "handle_ip_config_timeout", message=0x8634578 "assertion failed: (ap)") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gtestutils.c:1912
 g_assertion_message_expr (domain=domain@entry=0x0, file=file@entry=0x81072a3 "nm-device-wifi.c", line=line@entry=3181, func=func@entry=0x8109378 <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.22861> "handle_ip_config_timeout", expr=expr@entry=0x810c0a5 "ap") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gtestutils.c:1923
 handle_ip_config_timeout (reason=0xbf8f997c, chain_up=0xbf8f992c, may_fail=1, connection=0x85fb510, self=0x862c110) at nm-device-wifi.c:3181
 handle_ip_config_timeout (self=0x862c110, connection=0x85fb510, may_fail=1, chain_up=0xbf8f992c, reason=0xbf8f997c) at nm-device-wifi.c:3164
 act_stage4_ip6_config_timeout (dev=0x862c110, reason=0xbf8f997c) at nm-device-wifi.c:3252

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Peter Karlsson Zetterberg (peter-karlsson)]

Sorry, I was not aware that this was marked as a security related bug. I
might have done something by mistake in the browser UI to mark it as a
security issue but I do not think so.

Best regards,

Peter

2013/7/5 Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>

> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
> to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
> issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
> cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
> Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1197854
>
> Title:
> NetworkManager crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()
>
> Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Using Ubuntu 13.04, using latest updates from Stable. The crash
> happened about 30 seconds after bootup. Connected to WIFI hotspot
> provided by Android phone. Not sure if it crashed before the WIFI
> hotspot became available or just after.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
> Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
> Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Jul 4 07:53:41 2013
> ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
> IfupdownConfig:
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-20 (133 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386
> (20110427.1)
> IpRoute:
> default via 192.168.43.1 dev wlan0 proto static
> 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
> 192.168.43.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src
> 192.168.43.177 metric 9
> MarkForUpload: True
> NetworkManager.state:
> [main]
> NetworkingEnabled=true
> WirelessEnabled=true
> WWANEnabled=true
> ProcCmdline: NetworkManager
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=linux
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> Signal: 6
> SourcePackage: network-manager
> StacktraceTop:
> raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> g_assertion_message () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> ?? ()
> Title: NetworkManager crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (67 days ago)
> UserGroups:
>
> nmcli-dev:
> DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
> ttyACM0 gsm disconnected
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2
> eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
> wlan0 802-11-wireless connected
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
> nmcli-nm:
> RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE
...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's an issue ranked 45 on the daily trusty e.u.c,
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/eecaae4c294316bd4be0f7ecf11d8b23fa02a9f0

The bug should be fixed by that commit:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=9c57277aeb4e0794780296adc329fa720c42a982

Mathieu, could we get that one backported to our version (well, at least in trusty, not sure that's worth a SRU)