Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 219134
Synaptic crashes upon start
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:51 EST
Description of problem: Synaptic crashes when started. Previously it was working but after I have updated few packages it does not work now. even installed updated syanaptic package from extras, but no joy. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.57.2-5.2 How reproducible: Just start synaptic from console or from menu entry. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start synaptic from menu entry. 2. Provide root password in password box. 3. Actual results: When run from console by typing 'synaptic'. After providing root password, window shows up and immediately crashes. On console I found this line showing up every time. (synaptic:9609): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed The number beside "(synaptic:" is different sometimes. Expected results: Additional info: Also, attaching the gdb backtrace in a text file.
Created attachment 143287 [details] GDB backtrace of Synaptic after it crashes
Can you try using apt instead of synaptic? The backtrace looks very much like it is libapt related and if apt fails in a similar manner, then you may be seeing a duplicate of bug #211254
Hi Axel, You are right. I ran 'apt-get update' and it segfaulted. I was using "apt-0.5.15lorg3.2-8.fc6". Then I went back to "apt-0.5.15lorg3.2-7.fc6" and apt segfaulted. Its very strange, this version of apt was working ok previously. Here is the backtrace: ==================================== (gdb) run update Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get update ............................................... ............................................... Failed to fetch http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repodata/filelists.xml MD5Sum mismatch Failed to fetch http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/repodata/primary.xml MD5Sum mismatch Failed to fetch http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/repodata/filelists.xml MD5Sum mismatch Reading Package Lists... 0% Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208695072 (LWP 14209)] 0x009712d3 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) backtrace #0 0x009712d3 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x001a18b6 in std::string::compare () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #2 0x00c526f1 in rpmRepomdIndex::FindInCache () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.2 #3 0x00cbe150 in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewProvides () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.2 #4 0x00cbf599 in pkgMakeStatusCache () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.2 #5 0x00ca8451 in pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.2 #6 0x00ca8574 in pkgCacheFile::Open () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.2 #7 0x08064c9a in std::vector<pkgSrcRecords::Parser::BuildDepRec, std::allocator<pkgSrcRecords::Parser::BuildDepRec> >::_M_insert_aux () #8 0x08058921 in __gxx_personality_v0 () #9 0x00c2f2db in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.2 #10 0x0805d4d7 in __gxx_personality_v0 () #11 0x0091af2c in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #12 0x0804cb91 in __gxx_personality_v0 () ============================================== [root@localhost]# apt-get --version apt 0.5.15lorg3.2 for linux i386 compiled on Sep 16 2006 07:45:26 Supported Modules: *Ver: Standard .rpm *Pkg: rpm interface (Priority 20) S.L: 'rpm' Standard RPM binary tree S.L: 'rpm-src' Standard RPM source tree S.L: 'rpm-dir' Local RPM directory tree S.L: 'rpm-src-dir' Local SRPM directory tree S.L: 'repomd' RepoMD tree S.L: 'repomd-src' RepoMD src tree Idx: RPM Source Index Idx: RPM Package Index Idx: RPM Database
Yup, it's a dupe of #211254.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211254 ***