Activity log for bug #1743216

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2018-01-14 12:34:14 Carlos Gomes bug added bug
2018-01-14 12:39:57 Apport retracing service bug added subscriber Crash bug triagers for Ubuntu packages
2018-01-14 12:39:59 Apport retracing service attachment added Stacktrace.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743216/+attachment/5036839/+files/Stacktrace.txt
2018-01-14 12:40:00 Apport retracing service attachment added StacktraceSource.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743216/+attachment/5036840/+files/StacktraceSource.txt
2018-01-14 12:40:00 Apport retracing service attachment added ThreadStacktrace.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743216/+attachment/5036841/+files/ThreadStacktrace.txt
2018-01-14 12:40:02 Apport retracing service attachment removed CoreDump.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743216/+attachment/5036801/+files/CoreDump.gz
2018-01-14 12:40:02 Apport retracing service perl (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Medium
2018-01-14 12:40:04 Apport retracing service tags amd64 apport-crash bionic need-amd64-retrace package-from-proposed amd64 apport-crash bionic package-from-proposed
2018-02-19 16:55:21 Launchpad Janitor perl (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2018-08-31 19:06:53 Brian Murray information type Private Public
2018-08-31 19:12:58 Brian Murray perl (Ubuntu): importance Medium High
2018-08-31 19:13:52 Brian Murray description crashed after launching the software updater ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: perl-base 5.26.1-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-16.19-generic 4.14.12 Uname: Linux 4.14.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jan 14 13:30:52 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/perl InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-28 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171201) Signal: 6 SourcePackage: perl StacktraceTop: _dbus_abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 _dbus_warn_check_failed () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26/auto/Net/DBus/DBus.so Perl_pp_entersub () Title: perl crashed with SIGABRT in _dbus_abort() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo Errors Bucket ------------- https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 crashed after launching the software updater ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: perl-base 5.26.1-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-16.19-generic 4.14.12 Uname: Linux 4.14.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jan 14 13:30:52 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/perl InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-28 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171201) Signal: 6SourcePackage: perl StacktraceTop:  _dbus_abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  _dbus_warn_check_failed () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26/auto/Net/DBus/DBus.so  Perl_pp_entersub () Title: perl crashed with SIGABRT in _dbus_abort() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
2018-08-31 21:21:47 Brian Murray bug task added xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
2018-08-31 21:22:01 Brian Murray xdg-utils (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2018-08-31 21:22:05 Brian Murray xdg-utils (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2018-08-31 21:34:47 Brian Murray tags amd64 apport-crash bionic package-from-proposed amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release
2018-08-31 22:21:33 Brian Murray xdg-utils (Ubuntu): assignee Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
2018-09-21 12:24:45 Brian Murray tags amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-incoming
2018-09-25 13:57:10 Will Cooke xdg-utils (Ubuntu): assignee Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) Iain Lane (laney)
2018-09-25 13:57:17 Will Cooke nominated for series Ubuntu Cosmic
2018-09-25 13:57:17 Will Cooke bug task added perl (Ubuntu Cosmic)
2018-09-25 13:57:17 Will Cooke bug task added xdg-utils (Ubuntu Cosmic)
2018-09-25 13:57:28 Will Cooke tags amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-incoming amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking
2018-09-26 12:49:12 Hans Deragon bug added subscriber Hans Deragon
2018-10-02 09:53:30 Iain Lane perl (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Confirmed Invalid
2018-10-02 09:53:34 Iain Lane nominated for series Ubuntu Bionic
2018-10-02 09:53:34 Iain Lane bug task added perl (Ubuntu Bionic)
2018-10-02 09:53:34 Iain Lane bug task added xdg-utils (Ubuntu Bionic)
2018-10-02 09:54:20 Iain Lane xdg-utils (Ubuntu Bionic): status New In Progress
2018-10-02 09:54:22 Iain Lane xdg-utils (Ubuntu Bionic): assignee Iain Lane (laney)
2018-10-02 10:02:54 Iain Lane description Errors Bucket ------------- https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 crashed after launching the software updater ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: perl-base 5.26.1-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-16.19-generic 4.14.12 Uname: Linux 4.14.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jan 14 13:30:52 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/perl InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-28 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171201) Signal: 6SourcePackage: perl StacktraceTop:  _dbus_abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  _dbus_warn_check_failed () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26/auto/Net/DBus/DBus.so  Perl_pp_entersub () Title: perl crashed with SIGABRT in _dbus_abort() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo [ Description ] When xdg-screensaver suspend <wid> refers to a window with invalid UTF-8 in its title, it will spawn a perl process that crashes with an assertion: dbus[19455]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. [ QA ] I don't know how to get a window with such a title, so we can do two things. 1) 1. $ sudo -e $(which xdg-screensaver) # hack the script 2. Find the line "# Inhibit idle detection (flags = 8) with window name and ID." 3. Find the } on its own above that. Insert a new line afterwards and set the window name to be the same as the one in this bug, by pasting the code $window_name = "\253\062\065 Meter fehlten bis zur Katastrophe\273 - News Panorama: Vermischtes - tagesanzeiger.ch - Mozilla Firefox"; 4. Save and exit 5. $ xwininfo 6. click some window, and copy the "Window id", which will be 0x<something> 7. $ xdg-screensaver suspend <that window id> In the bad case (before this bug is fixed) it should crash, and in the good case it should work. 8. Undo what you just did by running $ xdg-screensaver resume <that window id> 2) Observe that the error bucket https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 has a reduction in report rate with the new versions. [ Regression potential ] If the code is bad then the window name passed to Inhibit() could be wrong. That shouldn't matter too much. If it is really bad then the program might crash for everybody and we'll see an increase in errors. [ Original description ] Errors Bucket ------------- https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 crashed after launching the software updater ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: perl-base 5.26.1-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-16.19-generic 4.14.12 Uname: Linux 4.14.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jan 14 13:30:52 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/perl InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-28 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171201) Signal: 6SourcePackage: perl StacktraceTop:  _dbus_abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  _dbus_warn_check_failed () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26/auto/Net/DBus/DBus.so  Perl_pp_entersub () Title: perl crashed with SIGABRT in _dbus_abort() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
2018-10-02 10:04:15 Iain Lane bug watch added https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910070
2018-10-02 10:04:15 Iain Lane bug task added perl (Debian)
2018-10-02 10:27:11 Iain Lane description [ Description ] When xdg-screensaver suspend <wid> refers to a window with invalid UTF-8 in its title, it will spawn a perl process that crashes with an assertion: dbus[19455]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. [ QA ] I don't know how to get a window with such a title, so we can do two things. 1) 1. $ sudo -e $(which xdg-screensaver) # hack the script 2. Find the line "# Inhibit idle detection (flags = 8) with window name and ID." 3. Find the } on its own above that. Insert a new line afterwards and set the window name to be the same as the one in this bug, by pasting the code $window_name = "\253\062\065 Meter fehlten bis zur Katastrophe\273 - News Panorama: Vermischtes - tagesanzeiger.ch - Mozilla Firefox"; 4. Save and exit 5. $ xwininfo 6. click some window, and copy the "Window id", which will be 0x<something> 7. $ xdg-screensaver suspend <that window id> In the bad case (before this bug is fixed) it should crash, and in the good case it should work. 8. Undo what you just did by running $ xdg-screensaver resume <that window id> 2) Observe that the error bucket https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 has a reduction in report rate with the new versions. [ Regression potential ] If the code is bad then the window name passed to Inhibit() could be wrong. That shouldn't matter too much. If it is really bad then the program might crash for everybody and we'll see an increase in errors. [ Original description ] Errors Bucket ------------- https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 crashed after launching the software updater ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: perl-base 5.26.1-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-16.19-generic 4.14.12 Uname: Linux 4.14.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jan 14 13:30:52 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/perl InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-28 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171201) Signal: 6SourcePackage: perl StacktraceTop:  _dbus_abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  _dbus_warn_check_failed () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26/auto/Net/DBus/DBus.so  Perl_pp_entersub () Title: perl crashed with SIGABRT in _dbus_abort() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo [ Description ] When xdg-screensaver suspend <wid> refers to a window with invalid UTF-8 in its title, it will spawn a perl process that crashes with an assertion:   dbus[19455]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754.   This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. [ Fix ] Use decode() from the Encode module to replace invalid character sequences with U+FFFD, the replacement symbol. This is not a new dependency as Encode has been a perl core module since 5.8. [ QA ] I don't know how to get a window with such a title, so we can do two things. 1) 1. $ sudo -e $(which xdg-screensaver) # hack the script 2. Find the line "# Inhibit idle detection (flags = 8) with window name and ID." 3. Find the } on its own above that. Insert a new line afterwards and set the window name to be the same as the one in this bug, by pasting the code   $window_name = "\253\062\065 Meter fehlten bis zur Katastrophe\273 - News Panorama: Vermischtes - tagesanzeiger.ch - Mozilla Firefox"; 4. Save and exit 5. $ xwininfo 6. click some window, and copy the "Window id", which will be 0x<something> 7. $ xdg-screensaver suspend <that window id> In the bad case (before this bug is fixed) it should crash, and in the good case it should work. 8. Undo what you just did by running $ xdg-screensaver resume <that window id> 2) Observe that the error bucket   https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 has a reduction in report rate with the new versions. [ Regression potential ] If the code is bad then the window name passed to Inhibit() could be wrong. That shouldn't matter too much. If it is really bad then the program might crash for everybody and we'll see an increase in errors. [ Original description ] Errors Bucket ------------- https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b386f287972198daca290969b0ea5182ce8e5d52 crashed after launching the software updater ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: perl-base 5.26.1-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-16.19-generic 4.14.12 Uname: Linux 4.14.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jan 14 13:30:52 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/perl InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-28 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171201) Signal: 6SourcePackage: perl StacktraceTop:  _dbus_abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  _dbus_warn_check_failed () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3  ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26/auto/Net/DBus/DBus.so  Perl_pp_entersub () Title: perl crashed with SIGABRT in _dbus_abort() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
2018-10-02 10:33:06 Iain Lane xdg-utils (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Confirmed In Progress
2018-10-02 17:58:13 Amr Ibrahim affects perl (Debian) xdg-utils (Debian)
2018-10-02 21:35:22 Launchpad Janitor xdg-utils (Ubuntu Cosmic): status In Progress Fix Released
2018-10-02 23:31:09 Brian Murray xdg-utils (Ubuntu Bionic): status In Progress Fix Committed
2018-10-02 23:31:12 Brian Murray bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2018-10-02 23:31:16 Brian Murray bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2018-10-02 23:31:22 Brian Murray tags amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2018-10-18 19:10:20 Launchpad Janitor perl (Ubuntu Bionic): status New Confirmed
2018-11-03 21:18:47 Mathew Hodson bug added subscriber Mathew Hodson
2018-11-03 21:19:17 Mathew Hodson xdg-utils (Ubuntu Bionic): importance Undecided High
2018-11-03 21:20:39 Mathew Hodson bug task deleted perl (Ubuntu)
2018-11-03 21:20:51 Mathew Hodson bug task deleted perl (Ubuntu Bionic)
2018-11-03 21:20:58 Mathew Hodson bug task deleted perl (Ubuntu Cosmic)
2018-11-06 08:36:16 Jean-Baptiste Lallement tags amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking verification-needed verification-needed-bionic amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking verification-failed-bionic verification-needed
2018-11-06 08:39:08 Jean-Baptiste Lallement tags amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking verification-failed-bionic verification-needed amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking verification-failed verification-failed-bionic
2018-11-06 09:47:34 Jean-Baptiste Lallement tags amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking verification-failed verification-failed-bionic amd64 apport-crash bionic regression-release rls-cc-tracking verification-done verification-done-bionic
2018-11-07 13:50:34 Launchpad Janitor xdg-utils (Ubuntu Bionic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2018-11-07 13:50:40 Robie Basak removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2018-11-07 16:42:17 Bug Watch Updater xdg-utils (Debian): status Unknown Confirmed
2018-11-11 04:40:23 Mathew Hodson removed subscriber Mathew Hodson
2018-11-11 04:41:14 Mathew Hodson bug added subscriber Mathew Hodson
2018-11-11 04:41:22 Mathew Hodson removed subscriber Mathew Hodson
2020-04-15 13:53:28 Bug Watch Updater xdg-utils (Debian): status Confirmed Fix Released