Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 858773
subscription-manager-gui live filter segfaults when driven with ldtp test driver
Last modified: 2014-06-02 09:06:35 EDT
Description of problem: When changing the "contain the text" filter when searching for subscriptions, the gui crashes with the error "Segmentation fault". This only happens when using the live text update, and changing the text REALLY fast. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): subscription-manager-gui-1.0.18-1.git.4.05607a2.el5 How reproducible: somewhat Steps to Reproduce: 1. start up Subscription-manager-gui 2. register to your handy dandy candlepin server (TM) 3. go to the "All Available Subscriptions" tab 4. Click on filters, and uncheck everything, and put in any string in the "Contain the text" field 5. Close the filters 6. click 'update' to search for subscriptions 7. open filters again 8. Change the text filter very quickly, for example using superhuman typing skills or ldtp.settextvalue() 8a - using the python shell: >>> import ldtp >>> ldtp.settextvalue("Filter Options", "Text in Subscription", "AnyStringYouWantHere") (see additional info for how to install ldtp) Actual results: subscription-manager-gui crashes with no error messages or logs other than "segmentation fault" Expected results: subscription-manager-gui does not crash and updates the search list Additional info: HOW TO INSTALL LDTP: Make sure you have access to the the rhel channels via yum. run my install-ldtp.sh script (attached).
Created attachment 614468 [details] install-ldtp.sh
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Bad news. It appears that this issue can be reproduced by hand by following a very specific set of steps. 1. Open subscription-manager, register, and go to the All Available Subscriptions tab. 2. Click Update. 3. Click Filters. 4. Uncheck the two checked filters. 5. Enter text in the text field. 6. Segfault.
It looks like the path to reproduce this issue is even more obscure that the one listed above. In step 1 of comment #3, you must register to a Candlepin instance where no service level will cover the installed products. I have been emulating this by using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux product certificate but registering to a development Candlepin instance populated with test data.
Sometimes step 5 in comment #3 will not cause a segfault. In that case, close the filter dialog, hit Update again, reopen the filter dialog, highlight all the text in the search field with the mouse, and type something. That should cause the segfault.
Also note that accessibility must be enabled in Gnome for this error to occur. # gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility --type=boolean true # init 3 && sleep 10 && init 5
since: - this seems to happen only with accessibility turned on - a relatively specific series of events happens - a relatively unused feature - the bug fix is most likely going to be in gtk2/libgail can we punt this to 6.4 (or probably 5.10, since it doesn't crash on rhel6). Otherwise I'd suggest maybe just turning off the text filter if accessibility is turned on.
per comment 7, this should be moved to 5.10
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