[apport] usplash crashed with SIGSEGV on start up

[John Levin]

Binary package hint: usplash

Automatic report generated on booting Feisty Herd 4 as a virtual machine (on OS X Parallels).

Different circumstances to bug 83785, despite similar names.

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Sat Feb 17 00:25:22 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /sbin/usplash
Package: usplash 0.4-41
ProcCmdline: /sbin/usplash -c -x 1024 -y 768
ProcCwd: /dev/.initramfs
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: usplash
Stacktrace:
 Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
 Core was generated by `/sbin/usplash -c -x 1024 -y 768'.
 Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
 #0 0xb7d30f5a in ?? () from /lib/libx86.so.1
 #0 0xb7d30f5a in ?? () from /lib/libx86.so.1
StacktraceTop: ?? () from /lib/libx86.so.1
ThreadStacktrace:
 .
 Thread 1 (process 10831):
 #0 0xb7d30f5a in ?? () from /lib/libx86.so.1
Uname: Linux feisty 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Thank you for your bug report.

Unfortunately the stack trace / backtrace is not detailed enough to help. If this bug is reproducible at will, could you please:

1. add to your /etc/apt/sources.list the debug symbols repository? You can edit it directly with the editor of your preference (as root), and add at the bottom the following line:

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ddebs feisty main universe

You can also use Synaptic (under Gnome, go to System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager and then, on Synaptic, select Settings/Repositories, and add the entry under the "Third Party" tab.

Please read on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash?highlight=%28%2F%2Fpeople.ubuntu.com%2F%7Epitti%2Fddebs%29 for details.

2. update the repositories, but do not install any upgraded package.

3. Now we have two options: we can just retrace the report you have, or we can try to reproduce it. I think, right now, retracing is simpler.

Your issue report should be at /var/crash. Open a terminal session, and then:

cd /var/crash

Find the name of the bug report, and issue

apport-retrace <name of the bug report file> -o 85742.retrace

this command will take a bit to complete, and during its execution it will download any necessary debug packages.

After the completion of the retrace, please upload the newly-created report here.

Thank you.

[miked (miked11)]

Howdy, I tried the back trace command and it did not work for me, so I
tried a few other things.
root@Ubuntu704TFFAlphaHerd5:/var/crash# apport-retrace
_sbin_usplash.0.crash -o 85742.retrace
report file does not contain required fields: CoreDump Package
ExecutablePath
I tried: root@Ubuntu704TFFAlphaHerd5:/var/crash# apt-get install
apport-retrace
I tried :root@Ubuntu704TFFAlphaHerd5:/var/crash# apt-get install
yelp-dbgsym
root@Ubuntu704TFFAlphaHerd5:/var/crash# wget
"http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0DE7276D5E0577F2" -O - | sudo apt-key add -
I haven't got it all to work yet, but I will keep trying.

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:47 +0000, hggdh wrote:

> Thank you for your bug report.
>
> Unfortunately the stack trace / backtrace is not detailed enough to
> help. If this bug is reproducible at will, could you please:
>
> 1. add to your /etc/apt/sources.list the debug symbols repository? You
> can edit it directly with the editor of your preference (as root), and
> add at the bottom the following line:
>
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ddebs feisty main universe
>
> You can also use Synaptic (under Gnome, go to
> System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager and then, on Synaptic,
> select Settings/Repositories, and add the entry under the "Third Party"
> tab.
>
> Please read on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash?highlight=%28%2F%2Fpeople.ubuntu.com%2F%7Epitti%2Fddebs%29
> for details.
>
> 2. update the repositories, but do not install any upgraded package.
>
> 3. Now we have two options: we can just retrace the report you have, or
> we can try to reproduce it. I think, right now, retracing is simpler.
>
> Your issue report should be at /var/crash. Open a terminal session, and
> then:
>
> cd /var/crash
>
> Find the name of the bug report, and issue
>
> apport-retrace <name of the bug report file> -o 85742.retrace
>
> this command will take a bit to complete, and during its execution it
> will download any necessary debug packages.
>
> After the completion of the retrace, please upload the newly-created
> report here.
>
> Thank you.
>
> ** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => hggdh
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:04 +0000, miked wrote:
(...)
> root@Ubuntu704TFFAlphaHerd5:/var/crash# apport-retrace
> _sbin_usplash.0.crash -o 85742.retrace
> report file does not contain required fields: CoreDump Package
> ExecutablePath

The report file must come last on the command:

apport-retrace -o 85742.retrace _sbin_usplash.0.crash

If you can get the retrace, it would help, but do not worry much on it.

Thanks,

..HggdH..

[miked (miked11)]

root@Ubuntu704TFFAlphaHerd5:/var/crash# apport-retrace -o 85742.retrace _sbin_usplash.0.crash
report file does not contain required fields: CoreDump Package ExecutablePath
root@Ubuntu704TFFAlphaHerd5:/var/crash#

I tried no luck.