Wingpanel

wingpanel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()

Bug #1170998 reported by Jonathan Alfonso
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This bug affects 97 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Wingpanel
Fix Released
Medium
Victor Martinez
Wingpanel 0.2.3

Bug Description

Crashed while using Chromium
*EDIT* Is caused by Spotify. I also had Spotify open at the time.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: wingpanel 0.1-0~r129+pkg10~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
Uname: Linux 3.8.5-030805-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: wingpanel
Date: Sat Apr 20 15:01:08 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/wingpanel
GSettings:
 org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel blacklist ['libappmenu.so']
 org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel default-launcher 'slingshot-launcher'
 org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel show-launcher true
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: wingpanel
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fc4bb85a101: movdqu (%rdi),%xmm1
 PC (0x7fc4bb85a101) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x000000e8) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm1" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: wingpanel
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_strdup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 wingpanel_indicator_widget_get_entry_name ()
 ?? ()
Title: wingpanel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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lp:~victored/wingpanel/lp-1170998
Cody Garver (community): Approve
Diff: 32 lines (+4/-4)
1 file modified
src/Indicator/IndicatorObjectEntry.vala (+4/-4)
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Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon1997) wrote :
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RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 g_strdup (str=0xe8 <Address 0xe8 out of bounds>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/gstrfuncs.c:355
 wingpanel_backend_indicator_object_entry_real_get_entry_name (base=0x10e21a0) at /build/buildd/wingpanel-0.2.2~r131/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/Indicator/IndicatorObjectEntry.c:295
 wingpanel_indicator_widget_get_entry_name (self=0x10e21a0) at /build/buildd/wingpanel-0.2.2~r131/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/IndicatorWidget.c:67
 wingpanel_services_indicator_sorter_get_order_node (widget=0x10e21a0, result=0x7fff867ebea0) at /build/buildd/wingpanel-0.2.2~r131/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/Services/IndicatorSorter.c:240
 wingpanel_services_indicator_sorter_compare_func (a=0x1588010, b=0x10e21a0) at /build/buildd/wingpanel-0.2.2~r131/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/Services/IndicatorSorter.c:170

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RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in wingpanel:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → luna-beta3
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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

Spotify is mentioned in most of these reports.

tags: added: spotify
Cody Garver (codygarver)
information type: Private → Public Security
Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon1997)
description: updated
Victor Martinez (victored)
Changed in wingpanel:
assignee: nobody → Victor (victored)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in wingpanel:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Ezra Sharp (nicekiwi) wrote :

Running fully upto date daily system, this just happened for me twice. Fix-released or not.

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Ezra Sharp (nicekiwi) wrote :

^^ Also I'm sure Spotify was the cause,. both times.

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AFD (anthonyfoxdavies) wrote :

I don't use spotify and this was marked as a dupe of the bug I reported so that is not the cause (in my case at least). I do use chrome if chrome/chromium might be the cause.

I have a feeling Skype might be causing issues too but that's just a hunch.

Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in wingpanel:
milestone: luna-beta3 → luna-rc1
summary: - wingpanel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()
+ wingpanel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup() part 1
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william ledoux (william-ledoux) wrote : Re: wingpanel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup() part 1

I used spotify before and never had any problem, but since I added a script at startup that launches spotify (spotify-notify.py) . It just crashed twice in a row after boot

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Samu Nuutamo (carbon) wrote :

I can confirm that Spotify causes the crash even after a fix has been released. This happens about 30% of time when I launch Spotify. The only other custom indicator I have is Dropbox if that matters.

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Piotrek Okoński (piotrek-f) wrote :

Same here for Spotify.

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Esa-leirivaara (esa-leirivaara) wrote :

Same here with Spotify.

Cody Garver (codygarver)
summary: - wingpanel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup() part 1
+ wingpanel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_strdup()
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Victor Martinez (victored) wrote :

Maybe this issue has to do with the encoding of the strings passed by those applications.

PLEASE TEST THE FOLLOWING BRANCH. STEPS:

$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/wingpanel # Make sure no local versions of wingpanel are installed, since these override the binary from the package
$ sudo apt-get install elementary-testing-scripts
$ elementary-install-from-bzr lp:wingpanel lp:~elementary-apps/wingpanel/tweaks
$ killall wingpanel # Cerbere will restart wingpanel and will use the updated version

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Lee Pfeifer (leecifer) wrote :

I installed that branch and have been trying to get a crash with no success. So for now, I'm cautiously optimistic. :)

But, if I do get a crash I'll be sure to submit a crash report.

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Victor Martinez (victored) wrote :

Thank you for testing Lee. That's good to know!

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Lee Pfeifer (leecifer) wrote :

I was able to get Wingpanel to crash again due to Spotify. Submitted a new bug report so my details would be uploaded. You can find it at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wingpanel/+bug/1193551

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raed (pc-raed818) wrote :

i reboot the PC twice and this bug appear to me at startup

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Ant59 (antonyderham) wrote :

Not fixed! Happened to me when opening Spotify with Wingpanel 0.2.4

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Ruairidh (ruairidhwm) wrote :

Just happened to me, had Spotify open.

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Daniel Röhrig (roehrig-daniel) wrote :

Still happens every time I start Spotify. After crashing everything works fine but it is still pretty annoying.

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Özcan ESEN (ozcanesen) wrote :

Hey guys i am working on a spotify indicator replacement.

https://github.com/ozcanesen/spotify-indicator

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İsmail Demirbilek (ce-demirbilek) wrote :

Still happens for me.

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jsterr (jonas-sterr) wrote :

Just happend again with spotify (linux version) opend.

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