Albert crashes on startup on a fresh install

[Ghoelian]

Description

Using a fresh install of albert 0.22.2 on Kubuntu 23.04, albert fails to launch with a segfault.

Expected behavior

No segfault

Steps to reproduce

Install albert and launch

Source

home:manuelschneid3r
from the OBS repo

Debug output

        Albert version: 0.22.2
            Build date: Aug 14 2023 20:53:45
            Qt version: 6.4.2
             Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
  Arch (build/current): x86_64/x86_64
 Kernel (type/version): linux/6.2.0-27-generic
                    OS: Ubuntu 23.04
     OS (type/version): ubuntu/23.04
 $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: 
         Platform name: xcb
                  Font: Sans Serif,9,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
       Binary location: /usr/bin/albert
                  $PWD: /home/julian
                $SHELL: /bin/bash
                 $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
              Language: C
                Locale: C
     $XDG_SESSION_TYPE: x11
  $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: KDE
      $DESKTOP_SESSION: plasma
  $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: KDE
            Icon theme: breeze-dark
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[Ghoelian]

Looks like this is issue is already tracked in #958, sorry about that.

[Ghoelian]

Wait actually no, I thought I was running on Wayland but I'm not.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

can you pls post the crash report in /var/crash?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

phew the report does not contain a backtrace. I am not really familar with the ubuntu crash system. do you know how one can extract the backtrace? ill delete the comment since it may contain sensible data.

[adabru]

@Ghoelian you didn't do an upgrade before by any chance?

[Ghoelian]

@adabru I did at first, but I also tested this on a fresh Kubuntu VM, and it crashed in the same way there.

[Ghoelian]

phew the report does not contain a backtrace. I am not really familar with the ubuntu crash system. do you know how one can extract the backtrace? ill delete the comment since it may contain sensible data.

It could be in /var/log, or somewhere in journalctl. I'll check tomorrow when I get back to my pc.

[adabru]

Ok. If I delete

~/.config/albert
~/.config/albert.conf
~/.local/share/albert
~/.cache/albert

and start albert 22.0 or 22.2 I get a segfault as well. If I downgrade to 21, start it, stop it, upgrade to 22.2, it works fine. You could try that "workaround".

[tchiotludo]

same here :

$ albert -d
        Albert version: 0.22.2
            Build date: Aug 14 2023 20:53:45
            Qt version: 6.4.2
             Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
  Arch (build/current): x86_64/x86_64
 Kernel (type/version): linux/6.2.0-27-generic
                    OS: Ubuntu 23.04
     OS (type/version): ubuntu/23.04
 $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: 
         Platform name: xcb
                  Font: Ubuntu,9,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
       Binary location: /usr/bin/albert
                  $PWD: /home/ludo
                $SHELL: /bin/bash
                 $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
              Language: English
                Locale: en_US
     $XDG_SESSION_TYPE: x11
  $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: ubuntu:GNOME
      $DESKTOP_SESSION: ubuntu-xorg
  $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: ubuntu-xorg
            Icon theme: Papirus-Dark
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

@adabru how do you install previous version to try the workaround?

[Ghoelian]

Alright I think I found something.

When Albert crashes, the error reporter pops up with some information.

Sorry for attaching images instead of text, the stupid error reporter thingy won't let me select text and I don't know where it's pulling this information from.

There's also a ThreadStacktrace, but it's way too long to fit on a screenshot. It starts with the warning warning: Section `.reg-xstate/365908' in core file too small.. If that sounds useful, let me know and I'll try to attach the entire stacktrace somehow.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

does 0.22.3 fix this for you?

[tchiotludo]

yes thanks 👍

[Ghoelian]

yup everything seems to work again. thanks!