pptp crashed while unattended - not sure why

Bug #253486 reported by joel west
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pptp-linux (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pptp-linux

Hardy Heron -- fully upgraded

root@joel-desktop:/home/joel# apt-cache policy pptp-linux
pptp-linux:
  Installed: 1.7.0-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.7.0-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.0-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Output of gdb on the core generated:

root@joel-desktop:/home/joel# gdb -c core /usr/sbin/pptp
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)

warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
(no debugging symbols found)
Core was generated by `pptp: call manager for 64.254.233.100 --nolaunchpppd'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 6630]
#0 0x0804d150 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0804d150 in ?? ()
#1 0x080524f7 in ?? ()
#2 0x0804a6b9 in ?? ()
#3 0x0804a51d in ?? ()
#4 0x0804a076 in ?? ()
#5 0xb7e64450 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6 0x08049521 in ?? ()

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joel west (joel-joelwest) wrote :
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Ben (ben-j-dover) wrote :

No idea when or why. System was unattended during the day serving as file server. Only found error when I returned to shut down at end of day. Sorry - not more information.

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Ben (ben-j-dover) wrote :

Identical situation to yesterday -

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in pptp-linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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