colord-sane assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/colord/colord-sane terminated

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen]

Got this error while attempting to log into a Unity session. (Actually Unity doesn't support the graphics driver/hardware on my MacBook Pro so it won't run anyway).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: colord 0.1.21-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/colord/colord-sane terminated
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Oct 4 00:30:12 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/colord/colord-sane
ExecutableTimestamp: 1347519435
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/colord/colord-sane
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:

Signal: 6
SourcePackage: colord
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0xb73a505e "*** %s ***: %s terminated\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:201
 __GI___fortify_fail (msg=0xb73a4fdf "buffer overflow detected") at fortify_fail.c:38
 __GI___chk_fail () at chk_fail.c:29
 __fdelt_chk (d=1029) at fdelt_chk.c:26
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.11
Title: colord-sane assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/colord/colord-sane terminated
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-21 (12 days ago)
UserGroups: scanner

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