hostapd crashed with SIGSEGV in nl_recvmsgs()

Bug #900466 reported by Daniel Hahler
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
hostapd (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Similar to bug 894672, but maybe this one can get retraced.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: hostapd 1:0.7.3-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic-pae 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Dec 1 20:51:17 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/hostapd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/hostapd -B -P /var/run/hostapd.pid /etc/hostapd/hostapd_default.conf
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x805c4c1: movzbl 0x5(%ebp),%ecx
 PC (0x0805c4c1) ok
 source "0x5(%ebp)" (0x00000005) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: hostapd
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 nl_recvmsgs () from /usr/lib/libnl.so.1
Title: hostapd crashed with SIGSEGV in nl_recvmsgs()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-29 (63 days ago)
UserGroups:

mtime.conffile..etc.default.hostapd: 2011-08-26T10:00:53.891983
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.hostapd: 2011-08-25T09:14:04.632048

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #894672, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

visibility: private → public
visibility: private → public
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

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