software-center - drag-n-dropping an icon from the Departments screen to Desktop causes one minute 100% CPU usage, then crashes

Bug #440446 reported by Jan Nekvasil
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

Probably a regression of bug #434236 (Drag-n-Dropping the screenshot thumbnail to a Nautilus window tries to copy whole root directory).

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: double free or corruption (out): 0x02000020 ***
Date: Fri Oct 2 10:22:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: software-center 0.4.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: software-center assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: double free or corruption (out): 0x02000020 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Revision history for this message
Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil) wrote :
Lars Ljung (larslj)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
status: Won't Fix → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 0.4.5

---------------
software-center (0.4.5) karmic; urgency=low

  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview.py:
    - avoid blocking if the authentication dialog comes up
      (LP: #436413)
  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview.py:
    - switch to use urls that return 404 if a package has no
      screenshot
  * softwarecenter/view/widgets/imagedialog.py,
    softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview.py:
    - merge lp:~mvo/software-center/ubuntu-404 that implements 404
      handling and show ubuntu branded dummy image (LP: #425874)
  * softwarecenter/view/appview.py:
    - support environment to switch sorting for searches:
      SOFTWARE_CENTER_SEARCHES_SORT_MODE={popcon,alphabetic,xapian}
      (to be able to test the different mode quickly)
  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview.py:
    - fix crash when no icon can be found (LP: #442040, LP: #440306)
  * softwarecenter/view/catview.py:
    - do not crash if no icon can be found (LP: #441171)
  * data/templates/CategoriesView.html:
    - disable drag-n-drop (LP: #440446)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:23:27 +0200

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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