update-notifier crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_pool_get_devices()

StacktraceTop:gdu_pool_get_devices (pool=0x0) at gdu-pool.c:1345
up_check_mounted_devices (pool=0x0, data=0x98e5540)
up_do_hal_init (un=0x98e5540) at gdu.c:220
main (argc=1, argv=0xbfe52564) at update-notifier.c:549

+1. This is affecting me as well in the same way. Update-notifier haves not worked for me since I installed Alpha-3.

Issue just appeared after dist-upgrade last night.
platform: amd64.
release: 9.10

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591658

Asus Eee PC 1000h

raising the importance due to the quantity of duplicates.

Martin, may you have a look to it? Thanks.

This bug appeared for me after update of 08/21/09

I provided a patch upstream that avoids the crash, but was asked why
it was happening in the first place. A little digging led me to believe that

https://code.launchpad.net/~james-w/ubuntu/karmic/devicekit-disks/fix-403192/+merge/10675

will stop this happening for at least my case.

Thanks,

James

Thanks, James. I can't reproduce it either, but let's try this patch, I'll upload it now.

Can people who are affected by this please report back if that helped, or if it is still an issue for them? Some reproduction recipe would also be greatly appreciated.

This bug was fixed in the package devicekit-disks - 006-0ubuntu2

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devicekit-disks (006-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * Add 01_fix_dbus_policy.patch: Add missing D-BUS ACLs, thanks James Westby!
    (LP: #403192)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:00:04 +0200

I can verify that this morning I received update notifications for the first time in a while, and the apport errors have stopped showing up.

Me too - I think it's the first time I've ever seen one on the laptop. I thought is was a hardware issue, as the netbook and desktop in Jaunty both show indicators.

Just hitted this after dist-upgrade and reboot.

The same here... power on PC, wait for boot, logon into Gnome and wait
few seconds. Just one unusual setup in my config - I have the
update-notifier in notification area rather than popup window via
"unsupported" gconf setting done.. see bug #332945 - that might be the
way to reproduce the crash....

Guillermo Gonzalez píše v Pá 28. 08. 2009 v 14:58 +0000:
> Just hitted this after dist-upgrade and reboot.
>

Started happening this morning in karmic. (last update was friday or saturday.)

Not fixed, generating a duplicated bug report.

leleobhz@luana:~$ LANG=C dpkg -l devicekit-disks ; sudo lshw -short ; stat /var/lib/apt/lists/br.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_main_binary-i386_Packages
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii devicekit-disks 006-0ubuntu3 abstraction for enumerating block devices
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                                  system Inspiron 910
/0 bus BR0F29
/0/1 memory 100KiB BIOS
/0/5 processor Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
/0/5/6 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/5/7 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/5/0.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/5/0.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/10 memory 1GiB System Memory
/0/10/0 memory 1GiB SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
/0/100 bridge Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub
/0/100/2 display Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1 display Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Grap
/0/100/1b multimedia 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0 generic SD/MMC Host Controller
/0/100/1c/0.2 generic Standard SD Host Controller
/0/100/1c/0.3 generic MS Host Controller
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 eth1 network BCM4312 802.11b/g
/0/100/1c.2 bridge 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3
/0/100/1c.2/0 eth0 network RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
/0/100/1d bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge
/0/100/1f.1 scsi0 storage 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 15GB STEC PATA 16GB
/0/10...

Had apparently the same bug with 64 bit. 9.10 with everything current as of a moment ago.

reopening there is quite some new duplicates running the most recent version

would bug #418300 be the same one?

the stacktrace are slightly different though...

i Have the same crash at least from what apport said. should i attach apport info?

oh forgot:
this was said to be a gwibber crash. I had just logged in when this crash appeared gwibber was not open.

Crash after install IceWM.

see bug #422392 which suggests that daemon need a restart after upgrade too

there is quite some duplicates which have been sent after the fix but no new ones this week though

Seems we just need to restart devicekit-disks on upgrade, similar to dk-power (see bug 422392)

This bug was fixed in the package devicekit-disks - 006-0ubuntu4

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devicekit-disks (006-0ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low

  * Add devicekit-disks.postinst: Kill the old devkit-disks-daemon, to ensure
    that the new version will be used at the next occasion. (LP: #403192)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:46:10 +0200