gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

Bug #404490 reported by Sandeep Kamath
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gedit
Fix Released
Critical
gvfs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gedit

happens after I open any file on sftp and save.
it crashes immediately after saving the file

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Jul 25 15:53:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: gedit 2.27.2-1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gedit /home/username/.gvfs/sftp\ for\ username\ on\ deluge1/home/username/eggdrop/scripts/allpro.tcl
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.22-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f79070750b0 <strlen+16>: cmpb $0x0,(%rax)
 PC (0x7f79070750b0) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%rax)" (0x00000003) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
 g_strdup () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_error_copy () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_simple_async_result_set_from_error ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Sandeep Kamath (sandeepkamath) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:37
IA__g_strdup (str=0x3 <Address 0x3 out of bounds>)
IA__g_error_copy (error=0x1f2e2d0)
IA__g_simple_async_result_set_from_error (
async_close_done (stream=<value optimized out>,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589915

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status: New → Triaged
visibility: private → public
Changed in gedit:
status: Unknown → New
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

It ends to be a gvfs issue, commit is available here : http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gvfs/commit/?id=a3979cd918d366be7850ca558b3040b8d2d0322d

affects: gedit (Ubuntu) → gvfs (Ubuntu)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 1.3.4-0ubuntu1

---------------
gvfs (1.3.4-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - ftp: Make large FTP transfers work
    - gphoto: use udev instead of hal
    - Fix build on FreeBSD
    - Bugs fixed: 588187, 589915, 573994, 590793, 576229, 589434
      (lp: #403223, #404490, #291259, #364084, #395216)
  * debian/patches/02-port-gphoto2-backend-and-monitor-to-gudev.patch:
    - the change is in the new version
  * debian/patches/90_relibtoolize.patch:
    - new version update

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:24:25 +0200

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gedit:
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in gedit:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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