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polkitd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_message_iter_append_basic()

Bug #636270 reported by JR on 2010-09-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #509651: polkitd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_message_iter_append_basic(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	policykit-1 (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: policykit-1

Crash came on authenticating to change login screen preferences - it asked for my password several times and then crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: policykit-1 0.96-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 12 10:55:58 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
ProcEnviron:

SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x537770: pcmpeqb (%esi),%xmm0
PC (0x00537770) ok
source "(%esi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%xmm0" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: policykit-1
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
?? () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
?? () from /usr/lib/libeggdbus-1.so.0
Title: polkitd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_message_iter_append_basic()
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JR (jonathanrodgers-hotmail) wrote on 2010-09-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (504 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (7.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (701 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (456 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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JR (jonathanrodgers-hotmail) on 2010-09-13

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-09-14:

StacktraceTop:
__strlen_sse2 () from /lib/libc.so.6
_dbus_marshal_write_basic (str=0x8fca638, insert_at=54,
_dbus_type_writer_write_basic (writer=0xbfb93e10, type=115,
dbus_message_iter_append_basic (iter=0xbfb93e08, type=115,
egg_dbus_append_value_to_iter (iter=<value optimized out>,