debconf-communicate crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()

Bug #641478 reported by Mario Limonciello
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: debconf

Just completed an OEM install and had this crash report in /var/crash

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: debconf 1.5.32ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 23 07:51:42 2010
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-dell-maverick-une-20100917-0
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/debconf-communicate
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20100917-01:44
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: debconf
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: debconf-communicate crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall()
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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 *__GI_raise (sig=6)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in debconf (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
affects: debconf (Ubuntu) → ubiquity (Ubuntu)
visibility: private → public
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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

Modifying oem-config-wrapper to run as root instead of oem seems to prevent this crash. It has it's own set of (other) issues however.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.4.2

---------------
ubiquity (2.4.2) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Jonathon Riddell ]
  * gui/qt/stepLanguage.ui: nicer icons and better layout on
    language page (LP: #628808)

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Set the LANG before running oem-config-remove.
  * Prevent a crash of debconf-communicate when removing oem-config.
    (LP: #641478)
  * Raise privileges when running the language page in only-installable
    mode. (LP: #647792)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: flash-kernel
    2.28ubuntu10.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Don't let Jockey's automatic driver installation failing cause the
    entire prepare page to fail.
  * Make sure $LANGUAGE gets set in the parallel debconf child process,
    so that we get translated descriptions (LP: #646109).
  * Set the effective UID in regain_privileges_save so we don't try to
    setgroups([]) as a regular user (LP: #646827).

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * depends on latest libindicator-dev for ABI change (LP: #637692, #647739)
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:24:06 -0500

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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