The specific code that resulted in this issue doesn't exist in newer
AppStream releases, so this sort of is "fixed" that way, as this issue
can't be triggered anymore.
** Changed in: appstream (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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Title:
appstreamcli crashed with SIGSEGV in gvs_tuple_needed_size()
Status in appstream package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Crashed, reset my screen but kept all documents open I had
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: appstream 0.11.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 30 16:27:55 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/appstreamcli
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-25 (67 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release i386 (20170412)
ProcCmdline: appstreamcli refresh-cache
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xb7e0e0ba <g_variant_serialiser_needed_size+618>:
pushl (%eax)
PC (0xb7e0e0ba) ok
source "(%eax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed
readable region)!
destination "(%esp)" (0xbfaca794) ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: appstream
StacktraceTop:
g_variant_serialiser_needed_size () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_variant_serialiser_needed_size () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: appstreamcli crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_serialiser_needed_size()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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