qupzilla assert failure: *** Error in `qupzilla': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0000556e0467d280 ***

[Lyn Perrine]

I launched qupzilla. It crashed on startup.

qupzilla:
  Installed: 2.1.2~dfsg1-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.1.2~dfsg1-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.1.2~dfsg1-2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Release: 17.10

I expected qupzilla to start without crashing. Instead it crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: qupzilla 2.1.2~dfsg1-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-13.14-generic 4.12.10
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** Error in `qupzilla': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0000556e0467d280 ***
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sun Sep 24 13:31:19 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qupzilla
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-20 (734 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150920)
ProcCmdline: qupzilla
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: qupzilla
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7feba953e408 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:181
 malloc_printerr (action=<optimized out>, str=0x7feba953eb00 "malloc(): memory corruption (fast)", ptr=<optimized out>, ar_ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:5423
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7feba9770c20 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=24) at malloc.c:3593
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=24) at malloc.c:3083
 operator new(unsigned long) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
Title: qupzilla assert failure: *** Error in `qupzilla': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0000556e0467d280 ***
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-06 (48 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip kvm libvirt libvirtd lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7feba953e408 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:181
 malloc_printerr (action=<optimized out>, str=0x7feba953eb00 "malloc(): memory corruption (fast)", ptr=<optimized out>, ar_ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:5423
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7feba9770c20 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=24) at malloc.c:3593
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=24) at malloc.c:3083
 operator new (sz=24) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/new_op.cc:50

[Georges Khaznadar (georgesk)]

The last version published fixes the bug.