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cupsd assert failure: cupsd: entrygroup.c:245: avahi_entry_group_free: Assertion `*_head == _item' failed.

Bug #1495276 reported by David Oxland on 2015-09-13

This bug affects 16 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cups (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

This crash just appeared during startup.
Lots of CUPS updates and errors lately.
Printer and scanner have worked mostly one way or the other using different apps.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: cups-daemon 2.1.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-7.7-generic 4.2.0
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: cupsd: entrygroup.c:245: avahi_entry_group_free: Assertion `*_head == _item' failed.
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Sep 12 22:57:48 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/cupsd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-29 (226 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
Lpstat:
device for Brother-DCP-7065DN: dnssd://Brother%20DCP-7065DN._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
device for Brother-DCP-7065DN-2: dnssd://Brother%20DCP-7065DN._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
device for david@david-Lenovo-H535: dnssd://Brother%20DCP-7065DN._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
device for PDF: cups-pdf:/
MachineType: LENOVO 10117
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
david@david-Lenovo-H535: Brother DCP-7065DN, using brlaser v3
PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
Brother-DCP-7065DN-2: Brother DCP-7065DN, using brlaser v3
Brother-DCP-7065DN: Brother DCP-7065DN, using brlaser v3
ProcAttrCurrent: /usr/sbin/cupsd (enforce)
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-7-generic root=UUID=94709fac-8bfa-41bf-8d29-24abdd9f77cc ro drm.debug=0xe plymouth:debug
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-7-generic root=UUID=94709fac-8bfa-41bf-8d29-24abdd9f77cc ro drm.debug=0xe plymouth:debug
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: cups
StacktraceTop:
__assert_fail_base (fmt=0x7fed6ded1028 "%s%s%s:%u: %s%sAssertion `%s' failed.\n%n", assertion=assertion@entry=0x7fed6e80d132 "*_head == _item", file=file@entry=0x7fed6e80d117 "entrygroup.c", line=line@entry=245, function=function@entry=0x7fed6e80d3b0 "avahi_entry_group_free") at assert.c:92
__GI___assert_fail (assertion=0x7fed6e80d132 "*_head == _item", file=0x7fed6e80d117 "entrygroup.c", line=245, function=0x7fed6e80d3b0 "avahi_entry_group_free") at assert.c:101
avahi_entry_group_free () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavahi-client.so.3
?? ()
?? ()
Title: cupsd assert failure: cupsd: entrygroup.c:245: avahi_entry_group_free: Assertion `*_head == _item' failed.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 11/05/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: I7KT31AUS
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: 31900058 STD
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrI7KT31AUS:bd11/05/2013:svnLENOVO:pn10117:pvrLenovoH535:rvnLENOVO:rn:rvr31900058STD:cvnLENOVO:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: 10117
dmi.product.version: Lenovo H535
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
modified.conffile..etc.default.cups:
# Cups configure options

# LOAD_LP_MODULE: enable/disable to load "lp" parallel printer driver module
# LOAD_LP_MODULE has migrated to /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf
# LOAD_LP_MODULE=yes
mtime.conffile..etc.default.cups: 2014-04-16T18:25:57

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David Oxland (doxland) wrote on 2015-09-13:

CupsErrorLog.txt Edit (3.6 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (64.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (939 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (12.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
KernLog.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Locale.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (29.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (854 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PrintingPackages.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (4.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (18.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (839 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (791 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (159.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (336.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2015-09-15:

StacktraceTop:
__assert_fail_base (fmt=0x7fed6ded1028 "%s%s%s:%u: %s%sAssertion `%s' failed.\n%n", assertion=assertion@entry=0x7fed6e80d132 "*_head == _item", file=file@entry=0x7fed6e80d117 "entrygroup.c", line=line@entry=245, function=function@entry=0x7fed6e80d3b0 "avahi_entry_group_free") at assert.c:92
__GI___assert_fail (assertion=0x7fed6e80d132 "*_head == _item", file=0x7fed6e80d117 "entrygroup.c", line=245, function=0x7fed6e80d3b0 "avahi_entry_group_free") at assert.c:101
avahi_entry_group_free () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_ge9Ymp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavahi-client.so.3
dnssdDeregisterInstance (srv=0x5613a662d9d0, from_callback=<optimized out>) at dirsvc.c:684
dnssdDeregisterPrinter (p=0x5613a662d230, clear_name=clear_name@entry=1, from_callback=from_callback@entry=1) at dirsvc.c:711

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Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-amd64-retrace

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) on 2015-09-15

information type:

Private → Public

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David Oxland (doxland) wrote on 2015-09-15:

Happening every boot.
No impediment.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2015-09-16:

Reported to CUPS upstream as https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4719

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-09-20:

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

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

VOIRIN ERIC (evoirin-9) on 2015-09-20

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → VOIRIN ERIC (evoirin-9)

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2016-04-09

tags:

added: xenial

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Leo Milano (lmilano) wrote on 2017-04-09:

I guess this is obvious. But this bug still happens in Xenial.

####
lmilano@grisell:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS"
####
####
lmilano@grisell:~$ dpkg -l |grep cups-client
ii cups-client 2.1.3-4 amd64 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
####

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2017-08-16:

#10

Another attempt of upstream bug report: https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5085

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) on 2017-08-29

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2017-08-29:

#11

Fixed in CUPS 2.2.4-4.

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2017-10-24:

#12

This bug was asserted fixed in 2.2.4-4, but I just had a crash with 2.2.4-7ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 17.10 that was reported to be a duplicate of this issue.

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Triaged
assignee:	VOIRIN ERIC (evoirin-9) → nobody

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Olaf Seibert (rhialto) wrote on 2018-01-23:

#13

Yes, I have this at every boot with Xubuntu 17.10 too.

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