AmiUpdate 2.49 crash bug

Version 2.49 was released not long ago.
Installation went well, all was fine.

This morning AU told me there is another update (update.library and Update Prefs) so i installed them.

Now i get a crash on every start, after AU checked for updates, always the same, some end_handler and the reason is update.library (53.19)...reverting to the last version now (53.18).

@Raziel

Yep, there's a nasty bug in 2.49 where it tries to update an already updated update.library and replaces it with a broken version...

@Rigo

There was a problem saving the submitted bug (), please try again.

Sorry, can't add it to the bug tracker

Here are the details:

Crash: v2.49 offers an updated update.library (also v2.49) but after installation AmiUpdate crashes

v2.49 offers an "updated" (determined by date) update.library of the same version (2.49).
After installing this, AmiUpdate crashes reproducably in end_handler and the reason is that "updated" library.

Crash log for task "SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate"
Generated by GrimReaper 53.19
Crash occured in module update.library at address 0x7F4EF5D4
Type of crash: DSI (Data Storage Interrupt) exception
Alert number: 0x80000003

Register dump:
GPR (General Purpose Registers):
0: 7F4EE6EC 54669A40 00000000 5F84BF10 5F689000 00000838 545A9C10 00000000
8: 00000838 00000838 545B0000 02431278 000007A4 62998D50 53D9D2F4 53D9D2F0
16: 00000000 53D9D1E8 00000000 00000100 53D9D370 53D9D2F4 53DA1998 53D9D2F0
24: 53D9D8D8 545EDFBA 53D9D9C0 545D8D98 5466A41C 00000000 000562A0 54669A40


FPR (Floating Point Registers, NaN = Not a Number):
0: nan -4.4678e+307 -4.4678e+307 -4.4678e+307
4: -4.4678e+307 -4.4678e+307 -4.4678e+307 50
8: 0 4.5036e+15 1 4.5036e+15
12: 10 2.14748e+09 0 0
16: 0 0 0 0
20: 0 0 0 0
24: 0 0 0 0
28: 0 0 0.1 4.5036e+15

FPSCR (Floating Point Status and Control Register): 0x82004000


SPRs (Special Purpose Registers):
Machine State (msr) : 0x0200B030
Condition (cr) : 0x543D0000
Instruction Pointer (ip) : 0x7F4EF5D4
Xtended Exception (xer) : 0x4F91D134
Count (ctr) : 0x00570001
Link (lr) : 0x00000000
DSI Status (dsisr) : 0x85027002
Data Address (dar) : 0x543D7A44



680x0 emulated registers:
DATA: 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
ADDR: 6FFA4000 97122700 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 54670970
FPU0: 0 0 0 0
FPU4: 0 0 0 0



Symbol info:
Instruction pointer 0x7F4EF5D4 belongs to module "update.library" (HUNK/Kickstart)

Stack trace:
module LIBS:update.library at 0x7F4EF5D4 (section 0 @ 0x45B0)
module LIBS:update.library at 0x7F4EE6EC (section 0 @ 0x36C8)
[expat_handlers.c:389] SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate:end_handler()+0x62c (section 1 @ 0x115F4)
module LIBS:expat.library at 0x7F4D3EC0 (section 0 @ 0xBE9C)
module LIBS:expat.library at 0x7F4D5448 (section 0 @ 0xD424)
module LIBS:expat.library at 0x7F4D5E84 (section 0 @ 0xDE60)
module LIBS:expat.library at 0x7F4D8704 (section 0 @ 0x106E0)
module LIBS:expat.library at 0x7F4CF14C (section 0 @ 0x7128)
module LIBS:expat.library at 0x7F4CA810 (section 0 @ 0x27EC)
[client.c:2024] SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate:ParseUpdateList()+0x3d4 (section 1 @ 0x7104)
[client.c:2305] SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate:doconnect()+0xcdc (section 1 @ 0x81F8)
[client.c:2941] SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate:Scan()+0x1c8 (section 1 @ 0xA608)
[client.c:3318] SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate:do_events()+0x224 (section 1 @ 0xC088)
[client.c:4202] SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate:main()+0x148c (section 1 @ 0xEEAC)
native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x000025fc
native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x00003328
native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x0000384c
SYS:System/AmiUpdate/AmiUpdate:_start()+0x1e0 (section 1 @ 0x1DC)
native kernel module dos.library.kmod+0x0002a458
native kernel module kernel+0x00059e04
native kernel module kernel+0x00059e7c

PPC disassembly:
7f4ef5cc: 419e025c beq- cr7,0x7F4EF828
7f4ef5d0: 813f0838 lwz r9,2104(r31)
*7f4ef5d4: 89290000 lbz r9,0(r9)
7f4ef5d8: 2f890000 cmpwi cr7,r9,0
7f4ef5dc: 419e024c beq- cr7,0x7F4EF828

System information:

CPU
Model: P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M VB1
CPU speed: 1800 MHz
FSB speed: 900 MHz
Extensions: altivec

Hi,

Update library in the latest update seems corrupt.
its size is only 56144 bytes while previous ones are around 1Mb (1121860 bytes for the previous one).

Regards,

@Petrol

Yes, and the same goes for the prefs_updates (as mentioned in the other thread). The one in the separate archive is 145172 bytes, while the one in the full update is 151060.

I'm wondering why there has to be a separate product for the library and the prefs program, when everything is already in the main archive. Much too much that can go wrong this way - and as we have seen, Murphy's Law is still in effect.

Best regards,

Niels

No idea what's going on here. I spent ages testing it all out in different situations and it worked perfectly here (despite what others may think!).

Anyway, I have removed the separate updates from the database now, so all the components in the main archive should gel together (they do here, at least).

Sorry for the confusion.

Simon

For me AmiUpdate stopped working long ago.. for some unknown reason (at least for me), the language is broken along with the buttons that have all the text weird inside... any idea on how to fix this problem??

@nubechecorre

Maybe install the latest version and try again?

@nubechecorre

That was caused by a bug in Prefs, latest version should fix it

where to download the latest one?

@nubechecorre

As usual, from the AmigaOS menu --> update

@nubechecorre

If you don't have it installed et al, then you can get the 2.47 package from here

ok i try and tell you if it works

nope. it doesn't work.. honestly i don't remember when it started but after an update the buttons and the translations were messy. I also tried to update italian catalog from os4depot but nothing changed..

I also tried to reinstall AmiUpdate from the link few post above but nothing.. to give you an idea, if I click the "Thanks/Grazie" button it shows the info window of the archive. If I press the "Abort/Interrompi" button it download the archive. It always tell me that it cannot download/synchronize with the server but it does instead and it show a string that is part in italian and part with a format symbol like "%s" ..

@nubechecorre

Try setting your language to English (i.e. remove the languages in Locale Prefs and let it default to English).

Then with your older AmiUpdate search for updates using the English UI and get the new 2.49 AmiUpdate as well as the latest Italian locale for it (and/or whichever other locale you may want).

Deselect any and all other updates, so they don't interfere for now.

You may get an error and some Grim reapers when trying to exit AmiUpdate, but just ignore them and do a reboot.

Afterwards, you should be able to set you preferred language(s) again, and hopefully the texts will be where they should.

Best regards,

Niels

thanks, in english it works fine like it should but when i put italian, all the options are messy.. don't know why. At least, with my workbench in english, everything is fine and it is ok for me :)
thanks for the help

You need an updated Italian catalog. Isn't one offered when checking for updates?
I'd recommend to delete the Italian catalog manually and then check again.

Regards...
Michael

update went fine for me yesterday and no issues today so far

@nbache

They should add md5 check, to make sure its downloaded correct before installing.