synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

[Hui Tang]

Binary package hint: synaptic

crash while i was updating via update manager

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 25 22:13:28 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: synaptic 0.60ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 58720259 --update-at-startup
ProcCwd: /home/duriantang
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_strdup () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 pango_font_description_copy ()
 pango_layout_set_font_description ()
 ?? ()
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux ubuntu-laptop-acer-duriantang 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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StacktraceTop:strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
IA__g_strdup (str=0xb <Address 0xb out of bounds>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.14.1/glib/gstrfuncs.c:90
pango_font_description_copy (desc=0x8239880) at /build/buildd/pango1.0-1.18.2/pango/fonts.c:680
pango_layout_set_font_description (layout=0x827fd40, desc=0x8239880)
RGFetchProgress::statusDraw (this=0x8281910, width=100, height=18, status=90) at rgfetchprogress.cc:422

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Did you maybe change theme during the update was in progress? I remeber that this caused crashes in the past.

Thanks,
 Michael

[Iacopo Masi (iacopo-masi)]

yes it was possibile that I was chaning the theme...

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Still an issue?

[GoofY (goofy-dse)]

Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> Still an issue?
>
>
No for me not. I can't reproduce the error.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Reported fixed.