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Bug 671491 - empathy-chat assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000000000160ffc0 ***
empathy-chat assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-...
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
3.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-03-06 20:02 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified: 2012-04-04 18:46 UTC
See Also:
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Description Bilal Shahid 2012-03-06 20:02:08 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/944710

No idea what happened.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.3.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000000000160ffc0 ***
CheckboxSubmission: 2f383a1679e8525d7196eb2518a1921f
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Fri Mar  2 12:02:46 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110817)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0x7f33bcbfe250 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:201
 malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7f33bcbfe418 "free(): invalid next size (fast)", ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:5007
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
Title: empathy-chat assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000000000160ffc0 ***
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-16 (15 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
Comment 1 Bilal Shahid 2012-03-06 20:02:34 UTC 
>>stacktrace
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/94976825/Stacktrace.txt
Comment 2 Akhil Laddha 2012-03-07 05:15:04 UTC 
If you can reproduce the crash reliably, might be good to get valgrind trace.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind
Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-03-07 09:10:38 UTC 
This crash seems related to libdbusmenu which is an Ubuntu specific change.
Comment 4 Ken VanDine 2012-04-04 18:46:37 UTC 
Yeah, this looks like a race of some sort when the menus are getting disconnected, so either appmenu-gtk or dbusmenu-glib.  Probably dbusmenu.