Bug report #12771

error Segmentation fault

Added by reiko fuerst almost 9 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:High
Assignee:-
Category:Data Provider/SpatiaLite
Affected QGIS version:2.8.2 Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:Yes Copied to github as #:20870

Description

Hi evrybody,

since a view days qgis (after an update) crashes when open a sqlite database.

massage:
src/core/qgsproviderregistry.cpp: 368: (provider) [0ms] Library name is /usr/lib/qgis/plugins/libspatialiteprovider.so
Segmentation fault

qgis version 2.9.0-master
qt 4.8.7
spatialite-version 4.1.1
debian unstable

also tested with the qgis version 2.8.2, same result.

is there a solution or workaround to fix that?

thanks a lot in advance

Associated revisions

Revision 252aaab8
Added by Jürgen Fischer almost 9 years ago

adopt 'new' spatialite initialization scheme via thin wrapper around sqlite3_open and sqlite3_close (fixes #12771)

Revision d7ca1902
Added by Jürgen Fischer almost 9 years ago

adopt 'new' spatialite initialization scheme via thin wrapper around sqlite3_open and sqlite3_close (fixes #12771)

(cherry picked from commit 252aaab, 23ef9da, d4b72a2, c7cb963 and e255d6c)

History

#1 Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected
  • Resolution set to up/downstream

Problem with Debian packaging. They are aware of it, going to fix, hopefully soon.

#2 Updated by Bas Couwenberg almost 9 years ago

This issue should be reopened, because qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp uses the deprecated spatialite_init() method causing the segfault.

The spatialite code in QGIS needs to be ported to use the spatialite_init_ex() method instead:

python/ext-libs/pyspatialite/src/connection.h:36:// int spatialite_init(int verbose);
python/ext-libs/pyspatialite/src/connection.c:84:    spatialite_init(0);
src/providers/spatialite/qspatialite/qsql_spatialite.cpp:551:    spatialite_init(0);
src/providers/spatialite/qspatialite/README:4:spatialite_init(0).
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:136:    spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:442:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:5061:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:5096:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:5177:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:5367:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:5423:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteprovider.cpp:5536:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/providers/spatialite/qgsspatialiteconnection.cpp:142:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/app/qgsnewspatialitelayerdialog.cpp:384:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/core/qgsofflineediting.cpp:77:    spatialite_init( 0 );
src/core/qgsofflineediting.cpp:383:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/analysis/openstreetmap/qgsosmimport.cpp:61:  spatialite_init( 0 );
src/analysis/openstreetmap/qgsosmdatabase.cpp:53:  spatialite_init( 0 );

Since QGIS is the most significant user of pyspatialite and its upstream development has stopped, updating the embedded pyspatialite copy in qgis to fix pyspatialite issue 24 seems the most promising road towards a solution.

See also the comments by Sandro on qgis-developer about porting QGIS to use spatialite_init_ex() instead.

The spatialite_init() method is highly unlikely to be fixed in Debian and upstream, all software built on top of libspatialite needs to be adapted to use spatalite_init_ex(). GDAL did this in 1.11.x, qgis and pyspatialite both don't (yet).

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 9 years ago

  • OS version deleted (unstable)
  • Operating System deleted (debian)
  • Category changed from Browser to Data Provider/SpatiaLite
  • Status changed from Rejected to Reopened
  • Crashes QGIS or corrupts data changed from No to Yes
  • Resolution deleted (up/downstream)

#4 Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Reopened to Closed

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