soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in __libc_message()

[Stephen Cradock]

trying to open a file in OO writer -
expected behavior - file opens.
Observed behavior - writer crashes.

Re-trying same file results in successful opening of file as expected.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:4.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.14-generic 3.8.0
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 21 19:46:36 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-21 (123 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin --writer --splash-pipe=6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: libreoffice
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Stephen Cradock, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Could you please provide the document that demonstrates this problem?

[Stephen Cradock (s-cradock)]

Sure - here it is. It just happened again when I tried to open the same one....

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f93b8398860 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:199
 malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7f93b8398bd8 "munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer", ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:4902
 add_file (model=0x0, file=0x2820850, info=0x5) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.16/gtk/gtkfilesystemmodel.c:1716
 g_object_unref (_object=0x24c5280) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./gobject/gobject.c:3024
 should_respond_after_confirm_overwrite (parent_file=0xee9e60, file_part=0x244e060 "", impl=0x0) at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.16/gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c:8286

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libreoffice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Stephen Cradock, thank you for providing the requested document. This is unreproducible in Xubuntu:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libreoffice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]