Bug 1092874

Summary: [abrt] bsd-games: _IO_default_xsputn(): backgammon killed by SIGSEGV
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: shantanudutta1994
Component: bsd-gamesAssignee: Jeff Makey <jeff>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 20CC: jcapik, jeff
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Hardware: i686   
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URL: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/8f6c7e5e0848310a12478fd90f22486bf0dd94f3
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Description shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:29:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm using fedora 20 LXDE spin.
1. I pressed Alt+F2 (run).
2. I entered 'backgammon' (without quotes) and pressed enter.
3. 'Backgammon' didn't run.
3. After sometime 'Automatic Bug Reporting Tool' reported this problem

Version-Release number of selected component:
bsd-games-2.17-43.fc20

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.2.1
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        backgammon
crash_function: _IO_default_xsputn
executable:     /usr/bin/backgammon
kernel:         3.13.10-200.fc20.i686
runlevel:       N 5
type:           CCpp
uid:            1000

Truncated backtrace:
Thread no. 1 (10 frames)
 #0 _IO_default_xsputn at genops.c:447
 #1 _IO_vfprintf_internal at vfprintf.c:1316
 #2 buffered_vfprintf at vfprintf.c:2328
 #3 _IO_vfprintf_internal at vfprintf.c:1289
 #4 __fxprintf at fxprintf.c:50
 #5 perror_internal at perror.c:39
 #6 perror at perror.c:67
 #7 errexit at backgammon/common_source/subs.c:68
 #8 fixtty at backgammon/common_source/subs.c:441
 #9 getout at backgammon/common_source/subs.c:456
Comment 1 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:29:54 UTC 
Created attachment 891039 [details]
File: backtrace
Comment 2 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:29:57 UTC 
Created attachment 891040 [details]
File: cgroup
Comment 3 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:11 UTC 
Created attachment 891041 [details]
File: core_backtrace
Comment 4 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:14 UTC 
Created attachment 891042 [details]
File: dso_list
Comment 5 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:17 UTC 
Created attachment 891043 [details]
File: environ
Comment 6 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:19 UTC 
Created attachment 891044 [details]
File: exploitable
Comment 7 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:21 UTC 
Created attachment 891045 [details]
File: limits
Comment 8 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:27 UTC 
Created attachment 891046 [details]
File: maps
Comment 9 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:32 UTC 
Created attachment 891047 [details]
File: open_fds
Comment 10 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:41 UTC 
Created attachment 891048 [details]
File: proc_pid_status
Comment 11 shantanudutta1994 2014-04-30 07:30:44 UTC 
Created attachment 891049 [details]
File: var_log_messages
Comment 12 Jeff Makey 2014-05-07 16:00:02 UTC 
The backgammon game does not have a GUI interface, so running it as you did will never work.  To play the game, run it from the command line in a terminal emulator.

The SIGSEGV that led to this bug report can be reproduced by invoking the program as "backgammon < /dev/null", which rapidly generates a long list of "fixtty: Inappropriate ioctl for device" error messages until stack space is exhausted as it recursively tries and fails to treat /dev/null as a tty.  (If you run it this way, suspend the process with CTRL/Z and then kill it if you don't want to wait.)  It should not be difficult to make backgammon deal with this situation more gracefully.