assertion botched message when opening a terminal

Bug #11736 reported by Daniel Silverstone
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
bash (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Matthias Klose

Bug Description

Every now and again, not reliably, and not under any particular circumstance I
can work out, bash gives the following message when I open a new terminal.

malloc: ../bash/subst.c:5934: assertion botched
malloc: block on free list clobbered
Stopping myself...

Then it seems to start the shell properly and it's fine.

This is concerning but since I can't repeat it reliably yet I'm not sure yet
what to suggest.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

yes, confirmed, but it hard to reproduce ... let's wait for bash-3.1.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

closing, please reopen, if you experience this behaviour with bash-3.1

  Matthias

Changed in bash:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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