Bug#466491: libc6: gettimeofday() in /libe/libc.so.6 causes SIGSEGV
Package: libc6
Version: 2.7-6
Severity: important
Applications (such as mplayer and vlc) that call gettimeofday() from
/lib/libc.so.6 get a SIGSEGV. See gdb output below:
clay ~ % gdb mplayer
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/mplayer
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x2ba82d5eece0 (LWP 8155)]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x2ba82d5eece0 (LWP 8155)]
0x00002ba8278d80d8 in gettimeofday () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00002ba8278d80d8 in gettimeofday () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00002ba81faac2be in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#2 0x00002ba8285a0f31 in _nv000102gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
#3 0x00002ba81fac272c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#4 0x00002ba81fac2b21 in _init () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#5 0x00002ba81ea98166 in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#6 0x00002ba81ea9828e in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#7 0x00002ba81ea8aa9a in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#8 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007fff8c01e84e in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.5custom (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080202-1 GCC support library
libc6 recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
glibc/restart-failed:
glibc/restart-services:
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