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telinit crashed with SIGSEGV in main()

Bug #275923 reported by royden on 2008-09-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #273761: init u|telinit u crashes with SIGSEGV in main(). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	upstart (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: upstart

Apport invoked during Synaptic upgrade, identified crash as in 'telinit', crash report id. package upstart

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /sbin/telinit
Package: upstart-compat-sysv 0.3.9-7
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: init u
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: upstart
Stacktrace:
#0 0xb809f16e in ?? () from /sbin/telinit
#1 0xb809ba9e in main () from /sbin/telinit
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /sbin/telinit
main () from /sbin/telinit
ThreadStacktrace:
.
Thread 1 (process 14915):
#0 0xb809f16e in ?? () from /sbin/telinit
#1 0xb809ba9e in main () from /sbin/telinit
Title: telinit crashed with SIGSEGV in main()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686
UserGroups: dialout uucp

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royden (ryts) wrote on 2008-09-29:

Dependencies.txt Edit (926 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (485 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (888 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (730 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (515 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Tony McKenzie (mckenzie-tony) wrote on 2008-09-29:

Crashed durring updatemanager upgrade.

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Daniel Hollocher (chogydan) wrote on 2008-09-29:

I got this too. Slightly disturbing since it happened while upgrading libc6, which AFAIK is a critical binary.

...
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6 (using .../libc6-dev_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6 (using .../libc6_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc6 (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7) ...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
...

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Stef Walter (stefw) wrote on 2008-09-29:

Same crash during libc update:

...
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 155688 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6 (using .../libc6-dev_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6 (using .../libc6_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc6 (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7) ...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)