Ubuntu
upstart package

nih_io_message_send assert when upgrading package

Bug #275958 reported by Ori Avtalion
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
glibc (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
upstart (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
Medium
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Ubuntu ubuntu-8.10

Bug Description

Using intrepid.

When upgrading via aptitude I get this error:

Setting up libc6 (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7) ...
init:io.c:724: Assertion failed in nih_io_message_send: message != NULL
Aborted (core dumped)

This does not stop the upgrade, and the package installs successfully.

Revision history for this message
Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

I saw this too. Confirming.

Changed in glibc:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

The fix for bug 188925 introduced this (harmless) error. It will be fixed post-beta.

Changed in upstart:
assignee: nobody → scott
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → ubuntu-8.10
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in glibc:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

(Just to clarify: the glibc postinst calls "init u", which had been silently ignored by upstart until the above bug was fixed. The error message is just showing that init respawned itself, and telinit got scared with no harm done.)

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

It looks like bug 273761 may be how this bug manifests on i386, is it possible to get this fixed before the beta? Thanks!

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