[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1106272: kicad-cli segfault on processing schematic

Thu May 22 12:13:19 BST 2025

Package: kicad
Version: 9.0.1+dfsg-1~bpo12+1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: b.spranger at linutronix.de

Dear Maintainer,

kicad-cli segfault on processing a schematic.

1) Clone project:
$ git clone https://github.com/eurovibes/akkupack-ng.git

2) Change to project and configure core dump
$ cd akkupack-ng
$ ulimit -c unlimited

3) Try to export schematic
$ kicad-cli  sch export pdf akkupack-ng.kicad_sch
---> Core dump is written

4) Show core dump
$ gdb /usr/bin/kicad-cli core
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/kicad-cli...
(No debugging symbols found in /usr/bin/kicad-cli)
[New LWP 5380]
[New LWP 5381]
[New LWP 5382]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `kicad-cli sch export pdf akkupack-ng.kicad_sch'.
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00007f138d8b7efa in __GI___libc_free (mem=0x9) at ./malloc/malloc.c:3362
3362	./malloc/malloc.c: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden.
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f13897b0d40 (LWP 5380))]
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f138d8b7efa in __GI___libc_free (mem=0x9) at ./malloc/malloc.c:3362
#1  0x00007f138769d378 in ?? () from /usr/bin/_eeschema.kiface
#2  0x00007f1387765f08 in ?? () from /usr/bin/_eeschema.kiface
#3  0x00007f138771e84b in ?? () from /usr/bin/_eeschema.kiface
#4  0x00007f1387707fc6 in ?? () from /usr/bin/_eeschema.kiface
#5  0x00007f13875c5ece in ?? () from /usr/bin/_eeschema.kiface
#6  0x00007f138e0a3f77 in JOB_DISPATCHER::RunJob(JOB*, REPORTER*) ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkicommon.so.9.0.1
#7  0x000055940a533b8d in ?? ()
#8  0x000055940a4b7d4b in ?? ()
#9  0x000055940a4c77a2 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007f138eb1fec7 in wxEntry(int&, wchar_t**) ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_baseu-3.2.so.0
#11 0x000055940a4b2b18 in ?? ()
#12 0x00007f138d84624a in __libc_start_call_main (
    main=main at entry=0x55940a4b2af0, argc=argc at entry=5,
    argv=argv at entry=0x7ffe1e5ae0f8)
    at ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
#13 0x00007f138d846305 in __libc_start_main_impl (main=0x55940a4b2af0, argc=5,
    argv=0x7ffe1e5ae0f8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>,
    rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffe1e5ae0e8)
    at ../csu/libc-start.c:360
#14 0x000055940a4b5441 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit

The Problem also occured in 9.0.1+dfsg-1 and is solved in 9.0.2+dfsg-1.

Regards
    Benedikt Spranger

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kicad depends on:
ii  libc6                            2.36-9+deb12u10
ii  libcairo2                        1.16.0-7
ii  libcurl4                         7.88.1-10+deb12u12
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.14.1-4
ii  libfreetype6                     2.12.1+dfsg-5+deb12u4
ii  libgcc-s1                        12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii  libgit2-1.5                      1.5.1+ds-1+deb12u1
ii  libgl1                           1.6.0-1
ii  libglew2.2                       2.2.0-4+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.74.6-2+deb12u6
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]           9.0.2-1.1
ii  libgtk-3-0                       3.24.38-2~deb12u3
ii  libharfbuzz0b                    6.0.0+dfsg-3
ii  libngspice0                      39.3+ds-1
ii  libnng1                          1.5.2-2
ii  libocct-data-exchange-7.6        7.6.3+dfsg1-7
ii  libocct-foundation-7.6           7.6.3+dfsg1-7
ii  libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.6  7.6.3+dfsg1-7
ii  libocct-modeling-data-7.6        7.6.3+dfsg1-7
ii  libocct-ocaf-7.6                 7.6.3+dfsg1-7
ii  libodbc2                         2.3.11-2+deb12u1
ii  libprotobuf32                    3.21.12-3
ii  libpython3.11                    3.11.2-6+deb12u6
ii  libsecret-1-0                    0.20.5-3
ii  libstdc++6                       12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii  libwxbase3.2-1                   3.2.2+dfsg-2
ii  libwxgtk-gl3.2-1                 3.2.2+dfsg-2
ii  libwxgtk3.2-1                    3.2.2+dfsg-2
ii  libzstd1                         1.5.4+dfsg2-5
ii  python3                          3.11.2-1+b1
ii  python3-wxgtk4.0                 4.2.0+dfsg-3
ii  zlib1g                           1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages kicad recommends:
ii  kicad-demos      9.0.1+dfsg-1~bpo12+1
ii  kicad-libraries  9.0.1+dfsg-1~bpo12+1
ii  xsltproc         1.1.35-1+deb12u1

Versions of packages kicad suggests:
pn  extra-xdg-menus                                                      <none>
pn  kicad-doc-ca | kicad-doc-de | kicad-doc-en | kicad-doc-es | kicad-d  <none>
    oc-fr | kicad-doc-id | kicad-doc-it | kicad-doc-ja | kicad-doc-pl |
     kicad-doc-ru | kicad-doc-zh
pn  kicad-packages3d                                                     <none>

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