parted_server crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()

[Reyan]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This happened when i tried to partition my hard disk (/dev/sdb partition) using G PARTED.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 21 11:05:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /bin/parted_server
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.8
ProcCmdline: parted_server
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x5357b4 <getenv+100>: cmp (%edi),%ax
 PC (0x005357b4) ok
 source "(%edi)" (0x00003e81) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: ubiquity
StacktraceTop:
 getenv () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __fortify_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __stack_chk_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libparted-1.8.so.12
Title: parted_server crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:*__GI_getenv (name=0x627df0 "LIBC_FATAL_STDERR_")
__libc_message (do_abort=2,
*__GI___fortify_fail (
__stack_chk_fail () at stack_chk_fail.c:29
__stack_chk_fail_local () from /lib/libparted-1.8.so.12

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This crash is *not* from gparted. Do you mean that you were using the installer's partitioner?

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported