NetworkManager crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

[Tobin Davis]

Binary package hint: network-manager

unplugged on-board nic and plugged in dm9601 based usb-nic. NetworkManager crashed and recovered with network connection going through usb-nic.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: armel
Date: Thu Sep 17 10:03:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
IpRoute:
 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth4 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.50 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth4 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth4 proto static
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20090911t130220.4c77fa0-0ubuntu6
ProcCmdline: NetworkManager
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-204.10-dove
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: network-manager
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_key_file_set_string_list () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__POINTER ()
Title: NetworkManager crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-204-dove armv7l
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_key_file_set_string_list () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
?? ()
g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__POINTER ()

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

Tobin, can you please check if this is still reproducible on the final release?

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

Unable to reproduce with Karmic release using other USB NIC devices, and the NIC that generated this error was given to amitk for kernel debugging on babbage.