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init crashed with SIGSEGV in conf_select_job()

Bug #1205443 reported by Sripad S. Kowshik on 2013-07-26

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This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Happens on reboot.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: upstart 1.9.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-5.14-generic 3.10.2
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-5-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 25 07:52:12 2013
ExecutablePath: /sbin/init
ExecutableTimestamp: 1374276561
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-23 (123 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130322)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: init --user
ProcCwd: /home/sripad
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xb774e12a: cmpl $0x2,0x10(%esi)
PC (0xb774e12a) ok
source "$0x2" ok
destination "0x10(%esi)" (0x45434e51) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: upstart
StacktraceTop:
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nih_main_loop () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnih.so.1
Title: init crashed with SIGSEGV in nih_main_loop()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-19 (35 days ago)
UpstartBugCategory: Session
UpstartRunningSessionCount: 1
UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.9.1)
UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.9.1)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
upstart.upstart-file-bridge.log:
Job got added /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/unicast_2dlocal_2davahi
Job got added /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/update_2dnotifier_2dcrash
Job got added /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/update_2dnotifier_2drelease

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lp:~jamesodhunt/upstart/quiesce-cleanup-fix

Merged into lp:upstart at revision 1516

Dimitri John Ledkov: Approve on 2013-07-31

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Sripad S. Kowshik (coldblood-sripad) wrote on 2013-07-26:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (592 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (812 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (505 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (385 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (428 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UpstartRunningSessionJobs.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2013-07-26:

#2

StacktraceTop:
conf_select_job (name=0xb7d5b170 "logrotate", session=0x0) at conf.c:1303
job_class_reconsider (class=0xb7d5b080) at job_class.c:478
job_change_state (job=0xb7d6a8f0, state=<optimized out>) at job.c:549
event_finished (event=0xb7d87f28) at event.c:464
event_poll () at event.c:258

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2013-07-26: Stacktrace.txt

#3

Stacktrace.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2013-07-26: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in upstart (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
summary:	- init crashed with SIGSEGV in nih_main_loop() + init crashed with SIGSEGV in conf_select_job()
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

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James Hunt (jamesodhunt) wrote on 2013-07-29:

#5

Hi Sripad, thanks for reporting this issue. If you can recreate the problem, can you try just shutting the system down (not rebooting) and then confirming if the crash occurs at shutdown?

James Hunt (jamesodhunt) on 2013-08-01

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