udevadm crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()

[Jānis Kangarooo]

Binary package hint: udev

this crash came after login after crash that made Bug 601353

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: udev 151-12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 3 15:14:45 2010
ExecutablePath: /sbin/udevadm
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Fujitsu Siemens VIA694X/686A
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic root=UUID=b807243e-ef5c-4d91-9308-bc0febe12dc3 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: udevadm info --export-db
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_MESSAGES=C
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8c1fd4 <malloc+148>: mov (%edx),%ecx
 PC (0x008c1fd4) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0x21400000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: udev
StacktraceTop:
 malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 strdup () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: udevadm crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 08/03/2000
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 62710
dmi.board.name: 6VX7-4X
dmi.board.vendor: GIGABYTE
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.00
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr62710:bd08/03/2000:svnFujitsuSiemens:pnVIA694X/686A:pvr00000000:rvnGIGABYTE:rn6VX7-4X:rvr1.0:cvn:ct3:cvrVersion1.00:
dmi.product.name: VIA694X/686A
dmi.product.version: 00000000
dmi.sys.vendor: Fujitsu Siemens

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 *__GI___libc_malloc (bytes=122) at malloc.c:3682
 *__GI___strdup (
 udev_list_entry_add (udev=0x21498008, list=0x2149f2bc,
 udev_device_add_property (udev_device=0x85,
 udev_device_add_property_from_string (

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported