atop crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

Bug #858200 reported by Ian! D. Allen
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This bug affects 40 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
atop (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I'd never seen this before. ATOP was dying before even getting started, according to GDB. Six hours later, it works fine.
At the time, I had some very memory- and disk-intensive processes running, moving 20GB files around.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: atop 1.26-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Sep 24 03:56:43 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/atop
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: atop
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f6dcf31b80f: rep stos %rax,%es:(%rdi)
 PC (0x7f6dcf31b80f) ok
 source "%rax" ok
 destination "%es:(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: atop
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: atop crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout disk lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

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Ian! D. Allen (idallen) wrote :
visibility: private → public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 __memset_x86_64 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../memset.S:1286
 engine () at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:85
 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at atop.c:651

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in atop (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in atop (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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martin suchanek (martin-suc) wrote :

Affects ubuntu vivid

tags: added: vivid
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D (360-dennis) wrote :

I'm on 15.04 and i experienced this as well

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martin suchanek (martin-suc) wrote :

Affects ubuntu wily 15.10

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Viktor Pal (deere) wrote :

Having this on 15.04, atop is running as a daemon to collect information, but crashes from time to time.

As atop has no systemd script but is started using sysinit unfortunately.
That is a pity as systemd could nicely respawn it when this happens with minimizing the impact...

tags: added: xenial
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Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote :

One thing I'd like to mention. I login as soon as Ubuntu will allow it. The login screen pops up and then goes away briefly. During that going-away time, I go ahead an enter my login credentials, and I'm usually logged in by the time the start up sound drums. As a matter of fact, the drum-sound is slightly cropped off at the end because I'm logged in before is completely sound (I think).

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