geeqie-standard crashes on start with SIGSEGV in editor_command_parse() when unity-lens-photos is installed

StacktraceTop:
 editor_command_parse (editor=editor@entry=0x2413800, list=list@entry=0x0, consider_sidecars=consider_sidecars@entry=0, output=output@entry=0x0) at ../../src/editors.c:761
 editor_read_desktop_file (path=0x2156160 "/usr/share/applications/unity-lens-photos.desktop") at ../../src/editors.c:322
 layout_editors_reload_idle_cb (data=<optimized out>) at ../../src/layout_util.c:1955
 g_main_dispatch (context=0x1fbef90) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.14/./glib/gmain.c:2715
 g_main_context_dispatch (context=context@entry=0x1fbef90) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.14/./glib/gmain.c:3219

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I installed debug symbols for several packages and ran geeqie under valgrind. Here is the log.

Unfortunately there are no debug symbols for package liblcms1.

Problem can perhaps be that geeqie did not pass from the unmaintained liblcms1 to liblcms2. See bug 885324.

Looks like Bug #1055673 is a duplicate, wherein comment 4 suggests a work-around: uninstall "unity-lens-photos".

The workaround works for me.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:29 PM, njdove <email address hidden> wrote:

> Looks like Bug #1055673 is a duplicate, wherein comment 4 suggests a
> work-around: uninstall "unity-lens-photos".
>
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> duplicate bug report (1058829).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1056532
>
> Title:
> geeqie-standard crashed with SIGSEGV in editor_command_parse()
>
> Status in “geeqie” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> geeqie segfaults whenever I run it. In this crashlog, I just ran the
> command 'geeqie' from gnome-terminal. I had just done a "sudo apt-get
> --reinstall install geeqie" to see if this would fix it.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
> Package: geeqie 1:1.0-10.1build1
> Uname: Linux 3.6.0-rc7-git-20120924.1005 x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Sep 26 09:05:37 2012
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/geeqie-standard
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64
> (20120724.2)
> ProcCmdline: geeqie
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
> SegvAnalysis:
> Segfault happened at: 0x44734a: movsbl 0x0(%rbp),%edx
> PC (0x0044734a) ok
> source "0x0(%rbp)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region
> (needed readable region)!
> destination "%edx" ok
> SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: geeqie
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> Title: geeqie-standard crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> UserGroups: adm lpadmin sambashare sudo
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I've found the cause of this:
Geeqie looks into desktop files to search for graphics applications, but crashes when it encounters a desktop file for a graphic app without the "Exec=" line. The Photos lens doesn't have this "Exec=" line because it shoudln't appear (for obvious reasons) as an app in the Applications lens.

Would anyone affected by this bug would be willing to test a fix before I make the change in the Photos lens?

1. Ensure you have the Photos lens (unity-lens-photos) installed
2. Ensure that Geeqie crashes when starting.
2. Open the photos lens desktop file for edition:

$ gksu gedit /usr/share/applications/unity-lens-photos.desktop

3. Remove "Graphics;" from the "Categories" line

Categories=Photography;

4. Save the file and open Geeqie.

David, this fix works perfectly for me. Now I can use geeqie again.

Thanks Till, merging and proposing for SRU.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Hello Rocko, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity-lens-photos into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-photos/0.9-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I have unity-photo-lens 0.9-0ubuntu1 and geeqie 1:1.0-10.1build1 installed and geeqie no longer crashes on startup.

For me the proposed package fixes the bug, too.

This patch is against 1.1 but should apply to 1.0 too, it fixes the segfault in geeqie itself.

Reactivating the task for the Geequie package as this small patch makes a lot of sense, perhaps we should even apply it as SRU.

My fix has been merged in the current official geeqie upstream here:

https://gitorious.org/geeqie/geeqie

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This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-photos - 0.9-0ubuntu1

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unity-lens-photos (0.9-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - [SRU] Default lenses results should appear above the shopping category
      (LP: #1066957)
    - TypeError:<module>:__init__:__init__:_get_accounts_for_service:constructor
      (LP: #1058061)
    - geeqie-standard crashes on start with SIGSEGV in editor_command_parse()
      when unity-lens-photos is installed (LP: #1056532)
 -- Lukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:09:51 +0200

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This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-photos - 0.9-0ubuntu1

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unity-lens-photos (0.9-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - [SRU] Default lenses results should appear above the shopping category
      (LP: #1066957)
    - TypeError:<module>:__init__:__init__:_get_accounts_for_service:constructor
      (LP: #1058061)
    - geeqie-standard crashes on start with SIGSEGV in editor_command_parse()
      when unity-lens-photos is installed (LP: #1056532)
 -- Lukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:09:51 +0200

Fixed in 1:1.2-1