Ubuntu no longer boot after March 12th updates.

[Nicolas Picard]

After to have retrieved some updates on March 12th, specially after a python's upgrade that return error code 250..... System crashed after that and after reboot I got:

Gnome wont start and ask for user#pwd
Immediatly after logged in:

malloc : //bash/subst.c : 3472 : assertion botched
free : appel avec un bloc non alloué // ==== call with an unallocated block
Annulation // Abort

malloc : //bash/subst.c : 3472 : assertion botched
free : appel avec un bloc non alloué // ==== call with an unallocated block
Annulation .... init: tty1 main process ended , respawing

And it's asked for user#pwd and again....again.....

[turox (tuxturox)]

I can confirm this bug similar to Nicolas describes..
By trying to boot with different kernel it stops one time with initramfs
and another messages I get is /lib/ubev/vol_id abnormal exit.

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

Thank you for filing the bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Can you check with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/201684 and confirm whether you also get the same error? If so, and as turox confirms, this bug can be marked as a duplicate of bug #201684. Thanks in advance.

[turox (tuxturox)]

The bug #201684 describes the same messages I get - and I can confirm this also. So this bug can be marked as duplicate.

[K.C. Wang (k.c.wang)]

Confirm this. I got:

malloc : //bash/subst.c : 3472 : assertion botched.
free: called with unallocated block argument.
Aborting.
.......

And I can't login.

[jarteq (j.p.s.)]

Same happend here xD

What to do next, I can't login anymore

[K.C. Wang (k.c.wang)]

Solved.

Colin Watson has posted the instructions.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/201673

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-March/000401.html