Outstanding crashes

[Elliott Sales de Andrade]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Florian Quèze <florian at instantbird.org>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Libpurple has been upgraded from 2.6.6 (which was used for Instantbird
> 0.2) to 2.7.3 in nightly builds of Instantbird about two weeks ago, so
> the crash data that we collect may be relevant again to you.
> Our crash reports database can be queried at
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/query
>
> I've checked the data this morning and if we except the uninteresting
> reports (very old versions, crashes in plugins that we know nothing
> about, ...) and the netsoul plugin crashes (already fixed, the bug was
> trivial), we are currently seeing at least 2 (or 3) crashes in
> libpurple that probably deserve some attention: 1 (or 2) new crashes
> in MSN (may be somewhat related to upnp) and one in oscar, that was
> already in libpurple 2.6.6.
>
> - We have a null-printf crash in msn_slpmsg_sip_new. From what I've
> been told it usually happens within 2 minutes of the connection of an
> MSN account.
> We also have crash reports where it happened with a much longer
> uptime, but the delay may be because the user has manually connected
> the MSN account.
> The stack is
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/5724c46e-466c-4011-b576-813ba2101005
> More reports of the same issue (the stacks are very similar, if not
> completely identical):
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/list?product=Instantbird&query_search=signature&query_type=exact&query=&date=&range_value=2&range_unit=weeks&process_type=all&plugin_field=&plugin_query_type=&plugin_query=&do_query=1&signature=strlen%20|%20_g_gnulib_vasnprintf<http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/list?product=Instantbird&query_search=signature&query_type=exact&query=&date=&range_value=2&range_unit=weeks&process_type=all&plugin_field=&plugin_query_type=&plugin_query=&do_query=1&signature=strlen%20%7C%20_g_gnulib_vasnprintf>
>
>
I've quickly narrowed it down to two of the inputs to that function, but the
best bet for figuring it out would be a debug log with the
PURPLE_VERBOSE_DEBUG env var set. It may be related to the one below,
though, since it tends to cause weird things to happen.


> - We have a significant number of crashes in
> msn_slp_sip_recv/msn_dc_destroy/purple_network_listen_cancel, with
> variations in the stacks. I suspect the variations may be randomly
> caused by using already free'd memory.
> Some stacks for this problem:
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/04db0e2f-7960-4d1a-99c1-7b2852100924
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/5f6f9cde-c75f-4617-892a-59ae32100924
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/55570e5d-b219-42b2-8302-9a3052101003
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/b8c75404-aafc-48e6-8620-01ef52100924
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/f092d332-97c8-40e8-9701-bb14e2101003
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/cbd67728-06ef-4262-a63f-ab8a12100924
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/2974f554-95f7-4804-8488-202022100929
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/2f2881da-6cad-495a-896e-ca7392100924
> This seems similar to http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12387 I'll try
> to apply the patch available there, and we will see if it disappears
> in the next nightlies.
>
>
Definitely will be fixed by #12387.


>
> - the oscar plugin crashes in flap_connection_destroy_cb:
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/40bbf7ab-0ea3-4e96-9dc0-6dbf62101001
> For more similar stacks, see
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/list?product=Instantbird&query_search=signature&query_type=exact&query=&date=&range_value=2&range_unit=weeks&process_type=all&plugin_field=&plugin_query_type=&plugin_query=&do_query=1&signature=g_slist_remove
> Some variations:
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/d447ebe8-d025-4b3b-8b9a-964a32100924
>
> http://crash-stats.instantbird.com/report/index/5c95337a-21e3-4f75-938a-b25222100929
> The crashes that are in version 0.2 of Instantbird are with libpurple
> 2.6.6, the less-than-two-weeks-old crashes of version 0.3a1pre are
> with libpurple 2.7.3.
> >From what I've been told by users, this crash happens mostly when a
> laptop wakes up from sleep and is connected to a different network.
> It seems flap_connection_destroy_cb is called from a timeout after the
> connection has already been destroyed.
> I've already shown this crash in #pidgin a few months ago and it was
> suggested that https://hg.instantbird.org/instantbird/rev/f2d45147098b
> may fix it, but the crash reports we are still getting show it still
> isn't fixed.
> This looks like what is described in
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5927 I left a comment there. I'm
> surprised it's still not fixed after 2 years given how common it seems
> to be (it was the most common libpurple crash in Instantbird 0.2), but
> maybe the frequency of the crash wasn't known, or has increased
> recently.
>
> I hope this data will be useful to you.
> If these crashes are already known, please let me know if there's some
> info I've missed about them or potential fixes in Trac that I should
> try.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Florian Quèze
>

-- 
Elliott aka QuLogic
Pidgin developer
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