chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in tcmalloc::FL_Next()

[Jeremiah Njoroge]

powered down the computer while a number of apps were running including chromium

on powering the computer on and logging in, noticed the crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: chromium-browser 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-030900rc6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 9 12:17:43 2013
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-19 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130319)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: chromium-browser\ --type=plugin\ --plugin-path=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so\ --lang=en-US\ --channel=13961.11.20690712
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f84d96c8dab: xor 0x8(%rbx),%rdx
 PC (0x7f84d96c8dab) ok
 source "0x8(%rbx)" (0xfffffffc03d934a1) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdx" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 calloc ()
 pa_xmalloc0 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0
Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in calloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 tcmalloc::FL_Next(void*) ()
 tcmalloc::FL_Pop(void**) ()
 calloc ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Closing now as this report wasn’t investigated timely and is now too old to be meaningful.
Please do not hesitate to report crashes occurring with recent releases of chromium-browser, they will hopefully be investigated and acted upon in a more timely manner.