Bug#337889: I can confirm scrollkeeper crashes

[Markus Gutschke]

Package: scrollkeeper
Version: 0.3.14-10
Followup-For: Bug #337889

I can confirm that the current version of scrollkeeper (0.3.14-10) is
crashing when calling "scrollkeeper-update" on at least one of my machines.

The stacktrace makes it look as if this could actually be a bug in
libxml2. Hard to say without knowing how scrollkeeper calls into libxml:

#0  0xb7eda06a in xmlAddAttributeDecl () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#1  0xb7f5c192 in xmlSAX2AttributeDecl () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#2  0xb7eb5228 in xmlParseAttributeListDecl () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#3  0xb7eb6f8c in xmlParseMarkupDecl () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#4  0xb7eb79d5 in xmlParseExternalSubset () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#5  0xb7eb90a8 in xmlSAXParseDTD () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#6  0xb7eb9205 in xmlParseDTD () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#7  0xb7fc8181 in install () from /usr/lib/libscrollkeeper.so.0
#8  0x08049f3f in ?? ()
#9  0x0804c0f0 in ?? ()
#10 0xbffff620 in ?? ()
#11 0xbffff320 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#13 0xbfffef08 in ?? ()
#14 0xbfffef10 in ?? ()
#15 0xbfffef14 in ?? ()
#16 0x0804c048 in ?? ()
#17 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#18 0xbfffef80 in ?? ()
#19 0xbfffeea8 in ?? ()
#20 0xb7ff6003 in _dl_rtld_di_serinfo () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#21 0xb7d16ec0 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#22 0x08048f51 in ?? ()

I put a core file at http://gutschke.com/markus/scrollkeeper-core.bz2
I hope that will help debugging the problem and in figuring out whether
this is a bug in libxml2 or in scrollkeeper.

Let me know which additional information you would like me to collect.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages scrollkeeper depends on:
ii  docbook-xml                   4.4-4      standard XML documentation system,
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libscrollkeeper0              0.3.14-10  Library to load .omf files (runtim
ii  libxml2                       2.6.22-2   GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                    1.1.15-1   XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-6  compression library - runtime

scrollkeeper recommends no packages.

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