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FS#35665 - [devhelp] crashes at startup

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugene Lipchansky (NSky) - Wednesday, 05 June 2013, 22:49 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 06 July 2013, 10:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
devhelp crashes at startup

Additional info:
devhelp 3.8.2-1


Steps to reproduce:
run devhelp

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/devhelp
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe5088700 (LWP 19069)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdffff700 (LWP 19070)]

(devhelp:19028): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_strcasecmp: assertion `s2 != NULL' failed

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff66e49c2 in malloc_consolidate () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x00007ffff66e49c2 in malloc_consolidate () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff66e5c18 in _int_malloc () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007ffff66e7ed0 in malloc () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#3 0x00007ffff6eb297f in g_realloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0x00007ffff6ecbd34 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff6ecbd82 in g_string_sized_new () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff6ea10c9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 0x00007ffff6ea23d5 in g_io_channel_read_chars () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00007ffff6c4c57d in dh_parser_read_file () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-3.so.2
#9 0x00007ffff6c4715a in dh_book_new () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-3.so.2
#10 0x00007ffff6c46140 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-3.so.2
#11 0x00007ffff6c463a7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-3.so.2
#12 0x00007ffff6c46502 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-3.so.2
#13 0x00007ffff6c4677c in dh_book_manager_populate () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-3.so.2
#14 0x00007ffff6c44233 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-3.so.2
#15 0x00007ffff7173687 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00007ffff718b778 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00007ffff718c462 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00007ffff74484aa in g_application_register () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#19 0x0000000000400dce in ?? ()
#20 0x00007ffff668da15 in __libc_start_main () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#21 0x0000000000400ed5 in ?? ()
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 06 July 2013, 10:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Ray Rashif (schivmeister) - Wednesday, 03 July 2013, 21:41 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (Assigned → Waiting on Response)
Hi Eugene

Do you still have this issue? I cannot reproduce this. This might have been fixed by recent updates.
Comment by Eugene Lipchansky (NSky) - Thursday, 04 July 2013, 07:11 GMT
Hi, I've reinstalled Arch recently. It looks like problem gone.

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