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gs crashed when generating preview thumbnails of PostScript files

Bug #797193 reported by David A. Cobb on 2011-06-14

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ghostscript (Ubuntu)	Expired	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ghostscript

I don't know why ghostscript would have been running! I had run Thunderbird, only, since logging in.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ghostscript 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 14 09:24:53 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gs
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
Lpstat: device for PDF: cups-pdf:/
Lsusb:
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles: PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
ProcCmdline: gs -r72 -dNODISPLAY -dFIXEDMEDIA -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER /tmp/ps2tPAiZDT -- /var/lib/dhelp/tmp/ddd-paper.ps
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/sh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=/dev/sda3 ro root=LABEL=LINUX_ROOT crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xee1732: mov (%edi),%esi
PC (0x00ee1732) ok
source "(%edi)" (0x81080000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%esi" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: ghostscript
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /usr/lib/libgs.so.9
alloc_free_chunk () from /usr/lib/libgs.so.9
?? () from /usr/lib/libgs.so.9
?? () from /usr/lib/libgs.so.9
alloc_restore_step_in () from /usr/lib/libgs.so.9
Title: gs crashed with SIGSEGV in alloc_free_chunk()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 04/18/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: MS-6570
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd04/18/2003:svn:pn:pvr:rvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-6570:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:

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David A. Cobb (superbiskit) wrote on 2011-06-14:

#1

BootDmesg.txt Edit (39.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (514 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Locale.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (11.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PrintingPackages.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (519 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (13.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (716 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (512 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (91.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (196.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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private → public

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David A. Cobb (superbiskit) wrote on 2011-06-14:

#2

Origin appears to be in cups. I do not have a functioning printer attached.

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-06-15:

#3

StacktraceTop:
gs_heap_free_object (mem=0x9876028, ptr=0x99981a0, cname=0xff23bc "alloc_free_chunk(chunk struct)") at ./base/gsmalloc.c:347
alloc_free_chunk (cp=0x99981a0, mem=0x9876474) at ./base/gsalloc.c:1848
i_free_all (mem=0x9876474, free_mask=1, cname=0xf618d9 "(free_all)") at ./base/gsalloc.c:411
restore_free (mem=<value optimized out>, dmem=<value optimized out>) at ./psi/isave.c:970
restore_space (mem=<value optimized out>, dmem=<value optimized out>) at ./psi/isave.c:834

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-06-15: Stacktrace.txt

#4

Stacktrace.txt Edit (14.7 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-06-15: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#5

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (14.7 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-08-07: Re: gs crashed with SIGSEGV in alloc_free_chunk()

#6

Ghostscript was called to generate a preview thumbnail of a PostScript file, probably on your desktop or in a dialog to open a file (like an e-mail attachment for example).

This bug got possibly fixed with the current Ghostscript release (9.04). Please try a live CD of Oneiric (Alpha 3) and check whether you can have preview thumbnails of your PostScript files on the desktop or in the file manager. Please reopen this bug report
if you still have problems with preview thumbnails.

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid
status:	Invalid → Incomplete

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-08-07:

#7

Sorry, closed to early. This bug is of the current stable release ...

summary:

- gs crashed with SIGSEGV in alloc_free_chunk()
+ gs crashed when generating preview thumbnails of PostScript files

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-10-07:

#8

[Expired for ghostscript (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Expired

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