I got this problem (triggered from package shared-mime-info) when I upgraded my server to 10.04 back in February (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+bug/59240) and still have it. Upgrading today to 10.04.3 did not help.
# sudo gdb update-mime-database.real GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/update-mime-database.real...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) r /usr/share/mime Starting program: /usr/bin/update-mime-database.real /usr/share/mime Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff74af280 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff74af280 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff7aedcca in __xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 #2 0x00007ffff7ac2d8d in xmlNewInputFromFile () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 #3 0x00007ffff7ac71b6 in xmlCreateURLParserCtxt () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 #4 0x00007ffff7ade03e in xmlSAXParseFileWithData () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 #5 0x00000000004065e6 in ?? () #6 0x000000000040785b in ?? () #7 0x00007ffff744ac4d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #8 0x0000000000402829 in ?? () #9 0x00007fffffffe798 in ?? () #10 0x000000000000001c in ?? () #11 0x0000000000000002 in ?? () #12 0x00007fffffffe9a0 in ?? () #13 0x00007fffffffe9c3 in ?? () #14 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Then I did: strace -o/tmp/strace.txt update-mime-database.real /usr/share/mime See attached output Linux server1 2.6.32-28-server #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 23:57:16 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS Anything else I can provide, let me know. ** Attachment added: "strace-update-mime-database.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/+bug/759525/+attachment/2369564/+files/strace-update-mime-database.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/759525 Title: update-mime-database segmentation fault on libxml2 and __strncmp_sse42 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libxml2/+bug/759525/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
