Bug 702965 - Segfault in npviewer.bin brought my WiFi connection down
Summary: Segfault in npviewer.bin brought my WiFi connection down
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nspluginwrapper
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-08 18:09 UTC by Jirka Daněk
Modified: 2011-05-09 06:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-09 06:36:01 UTC
Type: ---


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output of dmesg (103.47 KB, application/octet-stream)
2011-05-08 18:09 UTC, Jirka Daněk
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Description Jirka Daněk 2011-05-08 18:09:56 UTC
Created attachment 497660 [details]
output of dmesg

Description of problem:
For no apparent reason my Wi-Fi connection went down. I have a D-Link DWL-G122 C1 USB dongle. The lights on it went dark. Looking into dmesg, I spotted this:

[19488.088875] npviewer.bin[3441]: segfault at 0 ip 000000004f6d32b0 sp 00000000fff65a70 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2800.6[4f692000+118000]

taking the USB dongle out and plugging it back in brought the connection back online.

I have no idea what caused this and how to reproduce it. Also, Abrt shows nothing regarded to the crash and I have no idea where Fedora does store coredumps. So please could you tell me that? (And what to do with it?)

My HW profile: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?uuid=pub_56adb9dd-c210-4a9d-870e-6ebef7f8d37a + D-Link DWL-G122 C1 USB dongle

Comment 1 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2011-05-08 18:54:20 UTC
As I understand the problem, this is related to nspluginwrapper, so probably produced by a browser plugin.

IIRC nspluginwrapper is blacklisted from abrt because it will take crash of proprietary plugins.

The crash was propagated to NetworkManager because it's using a glib2 loop.

So here are some components that might be involved:
-nspluginwrapper
-glib2
-NetworkManager-glib

Please re-assign to one of the component above.
But please try to reproduce the problem.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2011-05-09 06:36:01 UTC
I don't think a crash in nspluginwrapper (And I suppose inside flash plugin) can bring the wifi down. Closing for now, please reopen if you have closer info or reproduction steps.


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