Bug 539939 - Segfault in xf86freeInputList() whilst running nvidia-config-display
Summary: Segfault in xf86freeInputList() whilst running nvidia-config-display
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pyxf86config
Version: 13
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:1f895350aef1b48feb9ebeb6a71...
: 543550 552447 645794 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-21 17:22 UTC by piio
Modified: 2010-11-10 10:36 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-10 10:36:12 UTC
Type: ---
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File: backtrace (3.62 KB, text/plain)
2009-11-21 17:22 UTC, piio
no flags Details

Description piio 2009-11-21 17:22:51 UTC
abrt detected a crash.

Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display
component: python
executable: /usr/bin/python
kernel: 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
package: python-2.6.2-2.fc12
rating: 4
reason: Process was terminated by signal 11

Comment 1 piio 2009-11-21 17:22:53 UTC
Created attachment 372772 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2009-11-21 17:37:54 UTC
Thanks for filing this bug report.

How reproducable is this problem?

Looking at the backtrace, it appears there was a segfault trying to free a block of memory, within xf86freeInputList() in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so

I'm reassigning the component from "python" to "pyxf86config", which I believe provides that module (do we ship usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display?  I'm not familiar with that code)

The maintainer of that code will probably want to know the output of:
  rpm -q pyxf86config
and of:
  rpm -qf /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display

Unfortunately, the stack trace is not as useful as it could be in determining the cause of the crash, because it is only a partial symbolic stack trace. In order to get a more full symbolic stack trace, the appropriate debuginfo packages need to be installed. In order to accomplish this, you can run the command:

  debuginfo-install pyxf86config

Thanks!

Comment 3 Dave Malcolm 2009-11-21 17:42:02 UTC
Also: if you the command from a terminal, is anything printed?

Looking at the backtrace, it looks like (in frame 10) that the python interpreter is bailing out, with an unhandled exception from the code; the segfault is happening during the cleanup after printing the (python-level) traceback from whatever error is occurring.

Comment 4 Dave Malcolm 2009-11-21 17:42:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Also: if you the command from a terminal, is anything printed?
"...if you run the command...", this should have read; sorry.

Comment 5 piio 2009-11-22 09:21:16 UTC
Problem is reproducable, after any attempt to run nvidia-config-display, i have core dumped.
In terminal after running this command i got only 'Naruszenie ochrony pamięci (core dumped)"

rpm -q pyxf86config
pyxf86config-0.3.37-7.fc12.x86_64

rpm -qf /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-1.fc11.x86_64

Comment 6 Dave Malcolm 2009-12-02 16:09:44 UTC
*** Bug 543550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2010-11-01 15:35:03 UTC
*** Bug 552447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Adam Jackson 2010-11-01 15:35:31 UTC
*** Bug 645794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 10 Bradley 2010-11-06 12:56:45 UTC
Was still happening in 13. Can't test F14 because of another bug

Comment 11 Bradley 2010-11-10 10:36:12 UTC
Fixed in F14, it appears (pyxf86config-0.3.37-10.fc14.x86_64)


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