#597124 update-notifier: "There is an error.." message and icon

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Fabrizio Regalli
Date:
2010-09-21 18:33:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#597124#5
Date:
2010-09-16 19:42:36 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

when I started gnome, my icon of update-notifier, on system tray, is always red
and, on mouse over, says "There is an error during update"
So i click on it, put the root password, and update-manager says "your system
is up-to-date"
At this point I try to re-lunch it manually, from terminal, with killall
update-notifier && update-notifier and I get this error:

[  139.996718] apt-check[2609]: segfault at 0 ip b75d7b16 sp bfa8c998 error 6
in libc-2.11.2.so[b7563000+140000]

Thanks.
#597124#10
Date:
2010-09-21 16:08:21 UTC
From:
To:
tag 597124 moreinfo
thanks
Can you still reproduce this? If you can, please provide a backtrace of
running 'python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check'.
#597124#17
Date:
2010-09-21 18:01:49 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Julian Andres,

for sure. Here's the required information.

:~$ gdb python
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-debian
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/python...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
(gdb) run /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
Starting program: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7cfdb16 in memcpy () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

Thanks.
Fabrizio.


Il giorno mar, 21/09/2010 alle 18.08 +0200, Julian Andres Klode ha
scritto:
#597124#22
Date:
2010-09-21 18:09:12 UTC
From:
To:
Sorry,

my previous e-mail has been sent incomplete.
More output of gdb


#0  0xb7cfdb16 in memcpy () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1  0xbfffa990 in ?? ()
#2  0xb79d8300 in pkgCacheGenerator::MakeStatusCache(pkgSourceList&,
OpProgress*, MMap**, bool) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10
#3  0xb79cb8ee in pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches(OpProgress*, bool) ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10
#4  0xb79cba64 in pkgCacheFile::Open(OpProgress*, bool) ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10
#5  0xb7a67d27 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt_pkg.so
#6  0x080accbd in ?? ()
#7  0x0806232a in PyObject_Call ()
#8  0x080e016b in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
#9  0x080e2507 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#10 0x080e098b in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
#11 0x080e2507 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#12 0x080e2607 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#13 0x080ffcbd in PyRun_FileExFlags ()
#14 0x080fff22 in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags ()
#15 0x0805dd81 in Py_Main ()
#16 0x0805cf6b in main ()


Thanks again.

Il giorno mar, 21/09/2010 alle 20.01 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli ha scritto:
#597124#27
Date:
2010-09-21 18:29:29 UTC
From:
To:
tag 597124 - moreinfo
reassign 597124 apt
thanks

[Fabrizio: Please do not top-post]
[Reassigning to APT - APT team: context can be found below]
According to the backtrace, the bug appears to be in APT. Quoting the
remaining message, as deity@lists.debian.org is part of the discussion
now (due to the reassign).