[Bug 985622] [NEW] Quake Catcher Network Sensor project crashes on start

[TheDreamer]

Public bug reported:

The Quake Catcher Network Sensor project application keeps failing under
this version of BOINC.

The project administrator provided this:
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they're always failing with a bad segfault as you can see in your task lists e.g.:

http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/result.php?resultid=1127548


<core_client_version>7.0.24</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 193 (0xc1, -63)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
Stack trace (11 frames):
/usr/bin/boinc(boinc_catch_signal+0x65)[0x48f675]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x364c0)[0x7f31adabd4c0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__strcat_chk+0x39)[0x7f31adb8ddb9]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x412a34]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x412b00]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x43163d]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x431adb]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x41a728]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x4712a4]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7f31adaa876d]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x406a65]

</stderr_txt>
]]>

I imagine it's some incompatibility with your 64-bit-to-32-bit library, or maybe there is a bug in that boinc version (it bombs out on a "strcat" so maybe something is concatenating a string too long for some variable)
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Obtaining 7.0.25 binaries from boinc.berkeley.edu has fixed this
problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: boinc-client 7.0.24+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 19 07:19:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: boinc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.boinc.client.cc.config.xml: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.boinc.client.global.prefs.override.xml: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.default.boinc.client: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.init.d.boinc.client: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.boinc.client.cc.config.xml: 2012-04-16T22:50:37.149836
mtime.conffile..etc.boinc.client.global.prefs.override.xml: 2012-04-15T16:19:05.591549
mtime.conffile..etc.default.boinc.client: 2012-04-18T22:49:44.023691
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.boinc.client: 2012-04-16T23:09:58.339111

** Affects: boinc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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