Bug#658231: boinc-client: SIGSEGV on start

[Christian Lins]

Subject: boinc-client: SIGSEGV on start
Package: boinc-client
Version: 6.10.58+dfsg-3
Severity: important

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On my fresh kFreeBSD-i386 installation the BOINC client crashes on startup.
Content of /var/lib/boinc-client/stderrdae.txt is:

SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Stack trace (12 frames):
/usr/bin/boinc(boinc_catch_signal+0x5e)[0x80a725e]
/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0xaad7)[0x28315ad7]
[0xbfbfffb4]
/lib/libc.so.0.1(ether_ntoa+0x27)[0x2853c037]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x80a99f1]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x808a715]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x808b098]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x805b5d7]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x8091024]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x809144c]
/lib/libc.so.0.1(__libc_start_main+0xab)[0x2847137b]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x804c2c1]

Exiting...


-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.

# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"

# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
# all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
# performance).
SCHEDULE="1"

# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"

# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"

# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"

# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser            3.112+nmu2            add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates    20090814+nmu3squeeze1 Common CA certificates
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.36.1              Debian configuration management 
sy
ii  libc0.1            2.11.3-2              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared 
lib
ii  libcurl3           7.21.0-2.1+squeeze1   Multi-protocol file transfer 
libra
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.5-8             GCC support library
ii  libssl0.9.8        0.9.8o-4squeeze7      SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.5-8               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base           3.2-23.2squeeze1      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init 
scrip
ii  python             2.6.6-3+squeeze6      interactive high-level 
object-orie
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
pn  boinc-app-seti            <none>         (no description available)
ii  boinc-manager             6.10.58+dfsg-3 GUI to control and monitor the 
BOI

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: 
u'/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg'

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false