Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 166141
cdparanoia crashes when invoked from a daemon
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:11 EST
Duh, hard to set up a minimal reproducer for this, but here goes anyway: I'm running vdr (from rpm.livna.org), and try to set up an OSD command using abcde (from Fedora Extras) for ripping audio CD's. The vdr daemon is started as root, and at startup it switches to the dedicated vdr user, dropping all privileges except setting the system time, using libcap. vdr runs abcde as the vdr user, and abcde runs cdparanoia like nice -n 10 cdparanoia -d /dev/cdrom 01 /tmp/music/abcde.8509ca0a/track01.wav When running on the console as the dedicated vdr user, everything works fine. But from within the vdr daemon, cdparanoia crashes. Output from abcde's debug log: --- + nice -n 10 cdparanoia -d /dev/cdrom 01 /tmp/music/abcde.8509ca0a/track01.wav cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to paranoia@xiph.org http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... DMA scatter/gather table entries: 1 table entry size: 131072 bytes maximum theoretical transfer: 55 sectors Setting default read size to 13 sectors (30576 bytes). Couldn't disable command queue! Continuing anyway... Checking for SCSI emulation... Drive is ATAPI (using SCSI host adaptor emulation) Checking for MMC style command set... /usr/bin/abcde: line 1592: 10713 Segmentation fault (core dumped) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM $UTRACKNUM "$WAVDATA" 1>&2 --- When running on the console, the "Couldn't disable command queue" message doesn't appear, and as said, things work fine. (Side note: abcde has support for cdda2wav too, and it crashes as well; but that's maybe a separate bug report later.) gdb backtrace attached. This is cdparanoia-alpha9.8-25 on FC4, i386.
Created attachment 117829 [details] gdb backtrace
I've excluded the capabilities stuff from the equation and changed a few things, cdda2wav no longer crashes. Also, setting CDDA_TRANSPORT=cooked in the environment before invoking abcde avoids the crash with cdparanoia. Without it set, I still get the same crash.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Can't reproduce any more on FC6's cdparanoia-alpha9.8-27.2, assuming fixed somewhere along the way.