Bug 1279014 - Crash in _nc_init_acs_sp
Summary: Crash in _nc_init_acs_sp
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gap-pkg-browse
Version: 24
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jerry James
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-11-07 05:57 UTC by Jerry James
Modified: 2016-04-15 03:19 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gap-pkg-browse-1.8.6-6.fc24
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-04-15 03:19:30 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jerry James 2015-11-07 05:57:10 UTC
Description of problem:
GAP occasionally crashes while running in a mock environment.  I have never seen it happen under normal circumstances, so maybe something about the mock environment is triggering it.  Anyway, I finally managed to catch it happening in GDB.  Here is what I got:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_nc_init_acs_sp (sp=0x555555dae5d0) at ../../ncurses/tinfo/lib_acs.c:95
95		    real_map[j] = 0;
(gdb) bt
#0  _nc_init_acs_sp (sp=0x555555dae5d0) at ../../ncurses/tinfo/lib_acs.c:95
#1  0x00007ffff6c0bfff in _nc_init_acs () at ../../ncurses/tinfo/lib_acs.c:249
#2  0x00007ffff63c58ca in _nc_setupscreen (slines=50, scolumns=80, 
    output=output@entry=0x7ffff71eb640 <_IO_2_1_stdout_>, 
    filtered=<optimized out>, slk_format=slk_format@entry=0)
    at ../../ncurses/base/lib_set_term.c:581
#3  0x00007ffff63c276e in newterm (name=name@entry=0x7fffffffe8e6 "vt100", 
    ofp=<optimized out>, ifp=<optimized out>)
    at ../../ncurses/base/lib_newterm.c:223
#4  0x00007ffff63beb33 in initscr () at ../../ncurses/base/lib_initscr.c:87
#5  0x00007ffff67e21ec in PostRestore ()
   from /usr/lib/gap/pkg/Browse/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-gcc-default64/ncurses.so
#6  0x00007ffff67e23e9 in InitLibrary ()
   from /usr/lib/gap/pkg/Browse/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-gcc-default64/ncurses.so
...

(gdb) print real_map
$1 = (chtype *) 0x0

So apparently it is possible that SP_PARM != 0, but SP_PARM->_acs_map == 0.  If this means that GAP is somehow misusing the interface, please let me know and I will attempt to fix this from the GAP side.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ncurses-6.0-1.20150810.fc24.x86_64

How reproducible:
Sometimes, probably having something to do with the phase of the moon.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install one of the gap-pkg-* packages.  Sometimes you'll see a segfault when GAP runs to generate the workspace.  Sometimes you won't.
2.
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2015-11-09 14:32:56 UTC
I tried building gap-pkg-io in mock in a loop for an hour and running update-gap-workspace couple times, but it didn't seem to trigger the crash.
From the backtrace it's not obvious to me what's happening.

I'm CCing the upstream maintainer.

Comment 2 Thomas E. Dickey 2015-11-10 01:34:08 UTC
I don't see a cause.

The _acs_map data should be nonzero at that point,
because it is allocated earlier in _nc_setupscreen,
on line 309 of lib_set_term.c

There might be some faulty error-return which corrupts
the sp-parameter.  Are we talking about this

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/gap-pkg-io/

or some other component (so I could read the source...)

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2015-11-12 07:51:23 UTC
The cause of the crash seems to be mixing incompatible ncurses/tinfo libraries in the same process. The gap binary is linked with libncurses6/libtinfo6, but the ncurses.so module from the gap-pkg-browse package is still linked with libncurses5/libtinfo5, which is now provided by the ncurses-compat-libs subpackage of ncurses.

Rebuild of the gap-pkg-browse package should fix it.

Comment 4 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 15:31:52 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-04-10 04:46:51 UTC
sagemath-6.8-8.fc24 gap-pkg-gpd-1.43-1.fc24 gap-pkg-semigroups-2.7.4-1.fc24 gap-pkg-genss-1.6.4-1.fc24 gap-pkg-spinsym-1.5-5.fc24 gap-pkg-orb-4.7.6-1.fc24 gap-pkg-ctbllib-1.2.2-7.fc24 gap-pkg-tomlib-1.2.5-7.fc24 gap-pkg-radiroot-2.7-5.fc24 gap-pkg-atlasrep-1.5.1-1.fc24 gap-pkg-nq-2.5.3-1.fc24 gap-pkg-browse-1.8.6-6.fc24 gap-pkg-alnuth-3.0.0-6.fc24 gap-pkg-polycyclic-2.11-6.fc24 gap-pkg-io-4.4.6-1.fc24 gap-pkg-crystcat-1.1.6-4.fc24 xgap-4.23-13.fc24 libgap-4.8.3-1.fc24 gap-pkg-sonata-2.8-4.fc24 gap-pkg-smallsemi-0.6.10-1.fc24 gap-pkg-polymaking-0.8.1-5.fc24 gap-pkg-grape-4.7-3.fc24 gap-pkg-fga-1.3.1-1.fc24 gap-pkg-edim-1.3.2-5.fc24 gap-pkg-cryst-4.1.12-4.fc24 gap-pkg-congruence-1.1.1-4.fc24 gap-pkg-carat-2.1.4-4.fc24 gap-pkg-autpgrp-1.6-5.fc24 gap-pkg-autodoc-2016.03.08-1.fc24 gap-pkg-aclib-1.2-5.fc24 GAPDoc-1.5.1-10.fc24 tth-4.08-4.fc24 gap-4.8.3-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-204ca75c8d

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-04-10 15:51:11 UTC
GAPDoc-1.5.1-10.fc24, gap-4.8.3-1.fc24, gap-pkg-aclib-1.2-5.fc24, gap-pkg-alnuth-3.0.0-6.fc24, gap-pkg-atlasrep-1.5.1-1.fc24, gap-pkg-autodoc-2016.03.08-1.fc24, gap-pkg-autpgrp-1.6-5.fc24, gap-pkg-browse-1.8.6-6.fc24, gap-pkg-carat-2.1.4-4.fc24, gap-pkg-congruence-1.1.1-4.fc24, gap-pkg-cryst-4.1.12-4.fc24, gap-pkg-crystcat-1.1.6-4.fc24, gap-pkg-ctbllib-1.2.2-7.fc24, gap-pkg-edim-1.3.2-5.fc24, gap-pkg-fga-1.3.1-1.fc24, gap-pkg-genss-1.6.4-1.fc24, gap-pkg-gpd-1.43-1.fc24, gap-pkg-grape-4.7-3.fc24, gap-pkg-io-4.4.6-1.fc24, gap-pkg-nq-2.5.3-1.fc24, gap-pkg-orb-4.7.6-1.fc24, gap-pkg-polycyclic-2.11-6.fc24, gap-pkg-polymaking-0.8.1-5.fc24, gap-pkg-radiroot-2.7-5.fc24, gap-pkg-semigroups-2.7.4-1.fc24, gap-pkg-smallsemi-0.6.10-1.fc24, gap-pkg-sonata-2.8-4.fc24, gap-pkg-spinsym-1.5-5.fc24, gap-pkg-tomlib-1.2.5-7.fc24, libgap-4.8.3-1.fc24, sagemath-6.8-8.fc24, tth-4.08-4.fc24, xgap-4.23-13.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-204ca75c8d

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-04-15 03:19:12 UTC
GAPDoc-1.5.1-10.fc24, gap-4.8.3-1.fc24, gap-pkg-aclib-1.2-5.fc24, gap-pkg-alnuth-3.0.0-6.fc24, gap-pkg-atlasrep-1.5.1-1.fc24, gap-pkg-autodoc-2016.03.08-1.fc24, gap-pkg-autpgrp-1.6-5.fc24, gap-pkg-browse-1.8.6-6.fc24, gap-pkg-carat-2.1.4-4.fc24, gap-pkg-congruence-1.1.1-4.fc24, gap-pkg-cryst-4.1.12-4.fc24, gap-pkg-crystcat-1.1.6-4.fc24, gap-pkg-ctbllib-1.2.2-7.fc24, gap-pkg-edim-1.3.2-5.fc24, gap-pkg-fga-1.3.1-1.fc24, gap-pkg-genss-1.6.4-1.fc24, gap-pkg-gpd-1.43-1.fc24, gap-pkg-grape-4.7-3.fc24, gap-pkg-io-4.4.6-1.fc24, gap-pkg-nq-2.5.3-1.fc24, gap-pkg-orb-4.7.6-1.fc24, gap-pkg-polycyclic-2.11-6.fc24, gap-pkg-polymaking-0.8.1-5.fc24, gap-pkg-radiroot-2.7-5.fc24, gap-pkg-semigroups-2.7.4-1.fc24, gap-pkg-smallsemi-0.6.10-1.fc24, gap-pkg-sonata-2.8-4.fc24, gap-pkg-spinsym-1.5-5.fc24, gap-pkg-tomlib-1.2.5-7.fc24, libgap-4.8.3-1.fc24, sagemath-6.8-8.fc24, tth-4.08-4.fc24, xgap-4.23-13.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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