powertop crashed with SIGSEGV in strstr()

[Florian Stoll]

Binary package hint: powertop

powertop shows only wrong information and crashes with "Segmentation fault"

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 11 21:04:16 2009
Dependencies:
 findutils 4.4.2-1
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-3ubuntu3
 libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu9
 libgcc1 1:4.4.1-3ubuntu3
 libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/powertop
Package: powertop 1.11-1
ProcCmdline: powertop
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x92b057 <strstr+23>: movzbl (%edx),%eax
 PC (0x0092b057) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0x080e0058) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: powertop
StacktraceTop:
 strstr () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: powertop crashed with SIGSEGV in strstr()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
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StacktraceTop:*__GI_strstr (haystack_start=0x80e0058 <Address 0x80e0058 out of bounds>,
suggest_kernel_config (
main (argc=0, argv=0x0) at powertop.c:1080