software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in new_threadstate()

Bug #894721 reported by Benjamin Kerensa
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This bug affects 21 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Running Precise Pangolin and decided to test drive software center just to see if it was buggy and it crashed upon trying to do a install.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-1.3-generic 3.2.0-rc2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 25 04:16:46 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111125)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x4dbe28: mov 0x8(%rbp),%rax
 PC (0x004dbe28) ok
 source "0x8(%rbp)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 PyGILState_Ensure ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/_gobject.so
 g_datalist_clear () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 new_threadstate (interp=0x0, init=1) at ../Python/pystate.c:200
 PyGILState_Ensure () at ../Python/pystate.c:615
 pygobject_data_free (data=0x33d3770) at /build/buildd/pygobject-3.0.2/gi/_gobject/pygobject.c:60
 g_datalist_clear (datalist=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.1/./glib/gdataset.c:282
 g_object_unref (_object=0x33d2010) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.1/./gobject/gobject.c:2746

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()
+ software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in new_threadstate()
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
visibility: private → public
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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da (daduck10) wrote :

In version 5.1.3 it happens too. Before open the software center and try to update, it doesn't work. For more information about what happend to me, the crash report is attached.

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