Re: [Synaptic-devel] 0.44pre4 strange state

[Kim Kulak]

Michael Vogt wrote:

Hi Michael,

> When did you do the update/upgrade? What version of samba is involved?
> I'll first try to reproduce this problem on my machine. 

I did the update and upgrade Sunday morning. What I have currently 
installed is samba-common, smbclient, and smbfs. All at version 
2.2.3a-14 and the upgrade was to 3.0.0beta2-1.

> Uhhhh ... that's even worse. Can you please do a backtrace of the
> crash? Start synaptic inside gdb:
> # gdb synaptic
> type "run"
> and after the crash type
> "where" 
>
> Please send me the output. 

Here it is:
pegasus:~# gdb synaptic
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/sbin/synaptic
/usr/local/sbin/synaptic: Symbol `clog' has different size in shared 
object, consider re-linking
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(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 16384 (LWP 17184)]
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unregisterObserver() failed
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New 
Thread 32769 (LWP 21150)]
[New Thread 16386 (LWP 21151)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 17184)]
0x406574b4 in ostream::flush () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
(gdb) where
#0  0x406574b4 in ostream::flush () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
#1  0x406574f6 in flush () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
#2  0x400ba2f7 in pkgDPkgPM::Go () from 
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
#3  0x4008207e in pkgPackageManager::DoInstall ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
#4  0x080a23f3 in RInstallProgress::start ()
#5  0x080c02e8 in RPackageLister::commitChanges ()
#6  0x0808e029 in RGMainWindow::proceedClicked ()
#7  0x4055d37f in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
   from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8  0x4054d872 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9  0x4055cf46 in g_signal_emit_by_name () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x4055c0ea in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0x4055c2e3 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0x4015b473 in gtk_button_clicked () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#13 0x4015c197 in _gtk_button_paint () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0x4055d37f in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
   from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 0x4054db06 in g_cclosure_new_swap () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 0x4054d872 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 0x4055c89a in g_signal_emit_by_name () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#18 0x4055c0ea in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#19 0x4055c2e3 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---q
Quit
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.
Do you still want to close the debugger?(y or n) y



> And I want to fix this problem :) What version of apt do you use?
I'm using apt version 0.5.4.

> Oh, another question. Do you use the dialog frontend in debconf?
Yes, I do. This is the default and I've never bothered to change it.


Later,
Kim