anki crashed with signal 5 in poll()

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Anki failed to start on Quantal, it consumes system's memory until system dies or anki is killed.

TEST CASE:
1. Start anki on Quantal

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: anki 1.2.11-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 23 21:47:29 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/anki
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/anki
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: anki
StacktraceTop:
 poll () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1
 xcb_wait_for_reply () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
Title: anki crashed with signal 5 in poll()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-01-31 (204 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild vboxusers

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Output from strace

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __GI___poll (fds=<optimized out>, nfds=<optimized out>, timeout=<optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
 _xcb_conn_wait (c=0x2140810, cond=<optimized out>, vector=0x0, count=0x0) at ../../src/xcb_conn.c:400
 wait_for_reply (c=0x2140810, request=64000, e=0x7fff94716768) at ../../src/xcb_in.c:390
 xcb_wait_for_reply (c=c@entry=0x2140810, request=64000, e=e@entry=0x7fff94716768) at ../../src/xcb_in.c:420
 _XReply (dpy=dpy@entry=0x213f5c0, rep=rep@entry=0x7fff947167d0, extra=extra@entry=0, discard=discard@entry=0) at ../../src/xcb_io.c:601

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

In my case it crashed the whole system.