unity-scope-loader crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()

[Michal Hruby]

mediascanner scope crashed with a c++ exception

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: libunity9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-3-maguro armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: armhf
Date: Thu Oct 10 15:53:24 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-scope-loader
ExecutableTimestamp: 1381364606
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-10 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch) - armhf (20131010)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/unity-scope-loader music/mediascanner.scope video/mediascanner.scope
ProcCwd: /
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: libunity
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
 raise () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6
Title: unity-scope-loader crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dialout dip nopasswdlogin plugdev sudo tty video

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/vterminate.cc:95
 __cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)()) () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:38
 std::terminate() () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:48
 __cxa_throw () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:84
 void boost::throw_exception<Lucene::ExceptionTemplate<Lucene::ExceptionTemplate<Lucene::ExceptionTemplate<Lucene::LuceneException, (Lucene::LuceneException::ExceptionType)9>, (Lucene::LuceneException::ExceptionType)5>, (Lucene::LuceneException::ExceptionType)15> >(Lucene::ExceptionTemplate<Lucene::ExceptionTemplate<Lucene::ExceptionTemplate<Lucene::LuceneException, (Lucene::LuceneException::ExceptionType)9>, (Lucene::LuceneException::ExceptionType)5>, (Lucene::LuceneException::ExceptionType)15> const&) () at /usr/include/boost/throw_exception.hpp:67

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

After talking to thostr_, it is likely that this was caused by removing ~/.cache/mediascanner while the scope was running.

While we should be dealing with these errors and not letting them leak as exceptions to C code, this isn't something that we should expect a normal user to run into. And even if they do, having the scope crash and restart isn't the worst experience.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

I'm closing this because it's old, the error condition is highly unlikely to arise, and we haven't seen any more of this. If it does become an issue again in the field, we'll pick it up from the crash logs.

[Cynx (cynx)]

Bug happened today. On all Ubuntu Distros. Elementary OS, Zorin OS and Ubuntu itself.