Subversion crashes when running "svn di -c 3309 <file>", but "svn log -v -c 3309 <file>" works fine

[Christian Iversen]

As it says in the summary, two different svn commands behave very differently. While "log" works, "diff" crashes with a segmentation fault.

I have managed to obtain a backtrace of the crash happening. I have tried to maximize the number of debug symbols, but there doesn't seem to be a libsvn1-dbg, so I cannot enable these symbols (luckily, they are in the middle of the trace)

[chrivers@helios]~/spye-dev #gdb --args svn di -c 3309 spye-python/spye/pluginsystem.py
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/svn...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Index: spye-python/spye/pluginsystem.py
===================================================================
[New process 13854]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff7fc4780 (LWP 13854)]
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007ffff6ec5e58 in run_child_cleanups () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0
#2 0x00007ffff6ec5e88 in cleanup_pool_for_exec () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0
#3 0x00007ffff6ec5ea2 in cleanup_pool_for_exec () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0
#4 0x00007ffff6ec5eca in apr_pool_cleanup_for_exec () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff6ed44ec in apr_proc_create () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff70fb099 in svn_io_start_cmd () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_subr-1.so.1
#7 0x00007ffff70fb40f in svn_io_run_cmd () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_subr-1.so.1
#8 0x00007ffff70fb670 in svn_io_run_diff2 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_subr-1.so.1
#9 0x00007ffff70f69b0 in svn_io_run_diff () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_subr-1.so.1
#10 0x00007ffff7bb82c4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_client-1.so.1
#11 0x00007ffff7bcc619 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_client-1.so.1
#12 0x00007ffff629385b in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.1
#13 0x00007ffff62a0dc8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.1
#14 0x00007ffff4f46251 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libneon-gnutls.so.27
#15 0x00007ffff3c63125 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
#16 0x00007ffff3c6a6e8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
#17 0x00007ffff3c6b449 in xmlParseChunk () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
#18 0x00007ffff4f4698f in ne_xml_parse () from /usr/lib/libneon-gnutls.so.27
#19 0x00007ffff62a2c92 in svn_ra_neon__parsed_request () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.1
#20 0x00007ffff62927c2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.1
#21 0x00007ffff7bb7274 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_client-1.so.1
#22 0x00007ffff7bb89c6 in svn_client_diff_peg4 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_client-1.so.1
#23 0x000000000040a7de in ?? ()
#24 0x0000000000406cf8 in ?? ()
#25 0x00007ffff68ee76d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#26 0x00000000004071e5 in ?? ()
#27 0x00007fffffffe0e8 in ?? ()
#28 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#29 0x0000000000000005 in ?? ()
#30 0x00007fffffffe471 in ?? ()
#31 0x00007fffffffe47e in ?? ()
#32 0x00007fffffffe481 in ?? ()
#33 0x00007fffffffe484 in ?? ()
#34 0x00007fffffffe489 in ?? ()
#35 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Content of .gdbinit:

set follow-fork-mode child
run

How to debug this further?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: subversion 1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 11 17:51:18 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_DK:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: subversion
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.subversion.config: 2012-06-06T00:38:20.109476
mtime.conffile..etc.subversion.servers: 2012-06-06T00:38:20.109476