Bug 154987 – Seahorse crashes when trying to sign keys

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Bug 154987 - Seahorse crashes when trying to sign keys


Summary:	Seahorse crashes when trying to sign keys


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	seahorse
Classification:	Applications
Component:	general
Version:	0.7.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Seahorse Maintainer
QA Contact:	Seahorse Maintainer

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2004-10-09 22:42 UTC by Robert Walker
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

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Description Robert Walker 2004-10-09 22:42:21 UTC

Please describe the problem:
Description of the crash:
You select a key
you select "sign"
you follow the menu
Nothing happens

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open your key ring
2. Select a key to sign
3. follow the steps and at the end you get an error message.

Actual results:
error message "General error"

Expected results:
It would sign the key(s)

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Seems to be a problem with this function or seahorse only as the entire
app doesn't crash..

Comment 1 Robert Walker 2004-10-09 22:43:09 UTC

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/seahorse'

(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -151109504 (LWP 4664)]
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...0x410007a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80
() from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

+ Trace 50922

Thread 1 (Thread -151109504 (LWP 4664))

#0 _dl_sysinfo_int80
from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#2 libgnomeui_module_info_get
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 seahorse_passphrase_get
#5 gpgme_op_sign
from /usr/lib/libgpgme.so.11
#6 ??
#7 ??
#8 ??
#0 _dl_sysinfo_int80
from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

Comment 2 Stef Walter 2004-10-12 01:07:46 UTC

It seems this occured when signing a key that had already been signed by the
user. Fixed in CVS.