tulip 4.4 (Ubuntu 14.04) segfault on startup

[Till W.]

Crashed with segmentation fault unconditionally on each startup. Renders program unusuable.

Output of GDB running tulip-dbg:

Starting program: /usr/bin/tulip
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
[New Thread 0x7fffe1f64700 (LWP 13288)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe1763700 (LWP 13289)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe0f62700 (LWP 13290)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdbfff700 (LWP 13291)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdb7fe700 (LWP 13294)]
[New Thread 0x7fffda796700 (LWP 13298)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd9f95700 (LWP 13299)]
[Thread 0x7fffdbfff700 (LWP 13291) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7dea138 in call_init (l=<optimized out>, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffded8, env=env@entry=0x7fffffffdee8) at dl-init.c:78
78 dl-init.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff7dea138 in call_init (l=<optimized out>, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffded8, env=env@entry=0x7fffffffdee8) at dl-init.c:78
#1 0x00007ffff7dea223 in call_init (env=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, l=<optimized out>) at dl-init.c:36
#2 _dl_init (main_map=main_map@entry=0x99b380, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffded8, env=0x7fffffffdee8) at dl-init.c:126
#3 0x00007ffff7deec70 in dl_open_worker (a=a@entry=0x7fffffffd478) at dl-open.c:577
#4 0x00007ffff7de9ff4 in _dl_catch_error (objname=objname@entry=0x7fffffffd468, errstring=errstring@entry=0x7fffffffd470, mallocedp=mallocedp@entry=0x7fffffffd460, operate=operate@entry=0x7ffff7dee9a0 <dl_open_worker>, args=args@entry=0x7fffffffd478) at dl-error.c:187
#5 0x00007ffff7dee3bb in _dl_open (file=0x977108 "/usr/lib/../lib/tulip//libogdfvisibility-4.4.0.so", mode=-2147483646, caller_dlopen=<optimized out>, nsid=-2, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffded8, env=0x7fffffffdee8) at dl-open.c:661
#6 0x00007ffff592702b in dlopen_doit (a=a@entry=0x7fffffffd690) at dlopen.c:66
#7 0x00007ffff7de9ff4 in _dl_catch_error (objname=0x6aa720, errstring=0x6aa728, mallocedp=0x6aa718, operate=0x7ffff5926fd0 <dlopen_doit>, args=0x7fffffffd690) at dl-error.c:187
#8 0x00007ffff592762d in _dlerror_run (operate=operate@entry=0x7ffff5926fd0 <dlopen_doit>, args=args@entry=0x7fffffffd690) at dlerror.c:163
#9 0x00007ffff59270c1 in __dlopen (file=<optimized out>, mode=<optimized out>) at dlopen.c:87
#10 0x00007ffff7acdb3d in tlp::PluginLibraryLoader::loadPluginLibrary (filename=..., loader=loader@entry=0x8c73d0) at /build/buildd/tulip-4.4.0dfsg2/library/tulip-core/src/PluginLibraryLoader.cpp:120
#11 0x00007ffff7acdd6a in tlp::PluginLibraryLoader::initPluginDir (this=0x68beb0, loader=loader@entry=0x8c73d0) at /build/buildd/tulip-4.4.0dfsg2/library/tulip-core/src/PluginLibraryLoader.cpp:260
#12 0x00007ffff7acec4e in tlp::PluginLibraryLoader::loadPlugins (loader=loader@entry=0x8c73d0, folder=...) at /build/buildd/tulip-4.4.0dfsg2/library/tulip-core/src/PluginLibraryLoader.cpp:67
#13 0x00007ffff75f74c8 in tlp::initTulipSoftware (loader=loader@entry=0x8c73d0, removeDiscardedPlugins=removeDiscardedPlugins@entry=true) at /build/buildd/tulip-4.4.0dfsg2/library/tulip-gui/src/TlpQtTools.cpp:211
#14 0x000000000041c960 in main (argc=1, argv=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/tulip-4.4.0dfsg2/software/tulip/src/main.cpp:169

Bug occurs with tulip 4.4.0dfsg2-2 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.

[Till W. (tillw.)]

Debian bug #723982 seems to be exactly the same issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723982

To me it looks like there are some serious bugs in tulip or one of the loaded libraries that lead to the crash on amd64 systems but work on i386.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou)]

Same here on Ubuntu 14.04-based KXstudio distro. Installed the default repo tulip version 4.4.0dfsg2-2 and I get a segmentation fault straight from the start.

There have been 5 releases of Tulip since 4.4.0: http://sourceforge.net/projects/auber/files/tulip/

Trying the latest (4.8.0) will probably solve the issue, seeing that comment 51 in the Debian bug report mentions the bug should be fixed in version 4.5.0dfsg-1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723982#51

I can't test the latest version as I don't have the capacity to compile from source.

Cheers