Bug 658368 – [abrt] man-db-2.5.7-6.fc14: __libc_message: Process /usr/bin/man was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)

Bug 658368 - [abrt] man-db-2.5.7-6.fc14: __libc_message: Process /usr/bin/man was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)

Summary:	[abrt] man-db-2.5.7-6.fc14: __libc_message: Process /usr/bin/man was killed b...

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	man-db (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	14
Hardware:	i686 Unspecified

Priority	low Severity medium
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Ivana Varekova
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:	abrt_hash:fad0bf8f486225daaef38c928a5...
Keywords:

Depends On:
Blocks:	668576
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2010-11-30 02:06 EST by Enrique
Modified:	2011-01-21 06:54 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-01-21 06:54:25 EST
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
File: backtrace (2.63 KB, text/plain) 2010-11-30 02:06 EST, Enrique	no flags	Details
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Groups: None (edit)

Description Enrique 2010-11-30 02:06:53 EST

abrt version: 1.1.14
architecture: i686
Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: man /usr/bin/phoronix-test-suite
comment: It is always reproducible.
component: man-db
crash_function: __libc_message
executable: /usr/bin/man
kernel: 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE
package: man-db-2.5.7-6.fc14
rating: 4
reason: Process /usr/bin/man was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
release: Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
time: 1291100672
uid: 4876

How to reproduce
-----
1. I simply executed man /usr/bin/phoronix-test-suite, altough it happens with any "man"  which includes the full comman path, like "man /bin/ls"

Comment 1 Enrique 2010-11-30 02:06:55 EST

Created attachment 463655 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 2 Colin Watson 2010-12-02 08:10:37 EST

It's hard to tell for certain since this is a memory corruption bug, but this sounds very like a bug I fixed in man-db 2.5.8:

Mon Nov 15 21:38:04 GMT 2010  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@debian.org>

        * src/man.c (local_man_loop): Simplify and improve code to make a
          temporary copy of manpathlist, in order that it can't free
          unallocated memory (may fix Savannah bug #31633).

See: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?31633

If you don't want to upgrade to 2.5.8 or newer, you should be able to apply http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/man-db/trunk/revision/1276 to 2.5.7 to fix this bug.

Comment 3 Ivana Varekova 2011-01-04 09:42:14 EST

Thanks Colin for your investigation.
man-db-2.5.7-7.fc14, which contains a patch Colin mention in previous coment, was just submitted to updates. Please fix this package the problem?

Comment 4 Enrique 2011-01-21 06:27:40 EST

 I have installed the last man-db-2.5.7-7.fc14 and the bug is indeed fixed. It can be closed.
 Thank you for your job!

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.