GSlice: g_thread_init(). memory corruption

[Martin Gustafsson]

vlc and gxine crash Xorg. The following message is reported in the terminal:

***MEMORY-WARNING***: [17776]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...

The following message is found in the Xorg.log

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c7f11]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/bin/X [0x80dd465]
3: /usr/bin/X(miHandleValidateExposures+0x78) [0x8138fe8]
4: /usr/bin/X [0x807a245]
5: /usr/bin/X(ConfigureWindow+0x992) [0x807c0d2]
6: /usr/bin/X(ProcConfigureWindow+0xa1) [0x808dda1]
7: /usr/bin/X [0x81521e1]
8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x19f) [0x808e61f]
9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x495) [0x8076765]
10: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7d7debc]
11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e5) [0x8075a81]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

Running Gutsy Gibbon/i386 on a laptop with VIA C3-processor.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 116870 and is being marked as such. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.