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killall assert failure: killall: killall.c:386: kill_all: Assertion `process_age_sec > 0' failed.

Bug #607618 reported by _b1 on 2010-07-20

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	psmisc (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #628617
	psmisc (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: psmisc

Happened after logon.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: psmisc 22.10-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: killall: killall.c:386: kill_all: Assertion `process_age_sec > 0' failed.
Date: Tue Jul 20 10:34:45 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/killall
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
ProcCmdline: killall gtk-sunlight -o 5s
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=ru_RU.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: psmisc
StacktraceTop:
__kernel_vsyscall ()
raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
__assert_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? ()
Title: killall assert failure: killall: killall.c:386: kill_all: Assertion `process_age_sec > 0' failed.
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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_b1 (alex.b1) wrote on 2010-07-20:

Dependencies.txt Edit (529 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (433 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (757 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (468 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (630 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (656 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-07-20:

StacktraceTop:
__kernel_vsyscall ()
*__GI_raise (sig=6)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
*__GI___assert_fail (
kill_all (signal=<value optimized out>,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-07-20: Stacktrace.txt

Stacktrace.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-07-20: ThreadStacktrace.txt

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in psmisc (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

Steve Beattie (sbeattie) on 2012-02-11

visibility:	private → public
Changed in psmisc (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote on 2012-02-11:

Confirming, this looks to be debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628617

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-02-11

Changed in psmisc (Debian):
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-06-02

Changed in psmisc (Debian):
status:	New → Incomplete

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-06-04

Changed in psmisc (Debian):
status:	Incomplete → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-08-31

Changed in psmisc (Debian):
status:	New → Fix Committed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2014-02-16

Changed in psmisc (Debian):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro) wrote on 2019-08-09:

This bug was fixed upstream in version 22.18 [1], and in xenial we already have version 22.21. So this bug is already fixed in the supported releases.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/psmisc/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog