update-notifier - crash

[Keith]

On 3/27/23 1:58 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with kernel 5.19.0-35 Feb 17 x86_64, I 
> noticed a small red symbol in the top right hand of the screen. It 
> complained about the package system.
> 
> So I did:-
> $ sudo apt update
> Which worked OK. So I did this:-
> $sudo apt upgrade
> Which downloaded a lot of updates and installed them.
> 
> I also ran dmesg and saved it. The end of its output was interesting so 
> I thought I'd post it here...
> [ 3344.966975] update-notifier[3152]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 
> sp 00007fffd0aaf6b8 error 14 in update-notifier[5599432cb000+6000]
> [ 3344.967002] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 
> 0xffffffffffffffd6.
> 
> It looks like update-notifier is using a NULL pointer.
> 

What version of the update-notifier package do you have installed? Was 
it included in the list of upgrades you just performed?

-- 
Keith