Bug 627638 – Evolution crash with insane allocation

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Bug 627638 - Evolution crash with insane allocation


Summary:	Evolution crash with insane allocation


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	pango
Classification:	Platform
Component:	cairo
Version:	1.28.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	pango-maint
QA Contact:	pango-maint

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2010-08-22 11:28 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified:	2012-08-25 17:58 UTC

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Description David Woodhouse 2010-08-22 11:28:46 UTC

GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:140: failed to allocate 20374954752 bytes
aborting...
==23683== 
==23683== Process terminating with default action of signal 5 (SIGTRAP)
==23683==    at 0x3A4DC47022: g_logv (in /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2512.0)
==23683==    by 0x3A4DC47402: g_log (in /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2512.0)
==23683==    by 0x3A4DC457AD: g_malloc (in /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2512.0)
==23683==    by 0x3A504080EA: pango_cairo_renderer_show_text_glyphs (pangocairo-render.c:328)
==23683==    by 0x3A5040848A: pango_cairo_renderer_draw_glyphs (pangocairo-render.c:383)
==23683==    by 0x3A508289CC: pango_renderer_draw_glyphs (pango-renderer.c:645)
==23683==    by 0x3A50406FAB: _pango_cairo_do_glyph_string (pangocairo-render.c:796)
==23683==    by 0x34FA421053: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1)
==23683==    by 0x7033E43: draw_glyphs (htmlgdkpainter.c:797)
==23683==    by 0x7054C7E: draw (htmltextslave.c:790)
==23683==    by 0x70044AF: draw (htmlclue.c:267)
==23683==    by 0x7008771: draw (htmlclueflow.c:1377)

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2010-08-24 17:04:23 UTC

Any idea what evo was trying to display?

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2011-07-26 06:54:40 UTC

Downstream bug report about the same:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718342

abrt version: 2.0.3
architecture:   i686
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        evolution
comment:        Was typing up an email.
component:      evolution
crash_function: g_malloc
executable:     /usr/bin/evolution
kernel:         2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686
os_release:     Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
package:        evolution-3.0.2-2.fc15
reason:         Process /usr/bin/evolution was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)

Cut backtrace:

+ Trace 227889

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7753890 (LWP 10570))

#0 __kernel_vsyscall
at arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.S line 16
#1 raise
at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c line 64
#2 abort
at abort.c line 93
#3 g_logv
at gmessages.c line 557
#4 g_log
at gmessages.c line 577
#5 g_malloc
at gmem.c line 169
#6 g_malloc_n
at gmem.c line 381
#7 pango_cairo_renderer_show_text_glyphs
at pangocairo-render.c line 328
#8 pango_cairo_renderer_draw_glyphs
at pangocairo-render.c line 383
#9 pango_renderer_draw_glyphs
at pango-renderer.c line 645
#10 _pango_cairo_do_glyph_string
at pangocairo-render.c line 796
#11 _cairo_draw_glyphs
at htmlgdkpainter.c line 152
#12 draw_glyphs
at htmlgdkpainter.c line 817
#13 html_painter_draw_glyphs
at htmlpainter.c line 636
#14 draw_text
at htmltextslave.c line 790
#15 draw
at htmltextslave.c line 931
#16 draw
at htmltextslave.c line 911
#17 html_object_draw
at htmlobject.c line 1054
#18 draw
at htmlclue.c line 267
#19 draw
at htmlclue.c line 251
#20 draw
at htmlclueflow.c line 1377
#21 draw
at htmlclueflow.c line 1362
#22 html_object_draw
at htmlobject.c line 1054
#23 draw
at htmlclue.c line 267
#24 draw
at htmlclue.c line 251
#25 draw
at htmlcluev.c line 395
#26 html_object_draw
at htmlobject.c line 1054
#27 html_engine_draw_real
at htmlengine.c line 5067
#28 html_engine_draw_cb
at htmlengine.c line 5121