synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_vfprintf_internal()

[Marius B. Kotsbak]

Crash at startup. Might be a duplicate.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.12build1
Uname: Linux 3.6.0-030600rc4-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Sep 10 10:27:42 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ExecutableTimestamp: 1339520460
ProcCmdline: synaptic
ProcCwd: /home/marius/projects/NetCom_LTE/networkmanager/modemmanager
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb6843b6e <_IO_vfprintf_internal+21406>: repnz scas %es:(%edi),%al
 PC (0xb6843b6e) ok
 source "%es:(%edi)" (0xae54256c) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 _IO_vfprintf_internal (s=0xbfc90840, format=<optimized out>, ap=0xbfc909a0 "\300\344\252\b") at vfprintf.c:1624
 __GI___vasprintf_chk (result_ptr=0xbfc9094c, flags=1, format=0xb76ed05f <Address 0xb76ed05f out of bounds>, args=0xbfc90984 "") at vasprintf_chk.c:68
 g_vasprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_vprintf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_printf () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_vfprintf_internal()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-31 (9 days ago)
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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #940621, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.