blender-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in BKE_ptcache_id_reset()

[rekado]

Binary package hint: blender

I was working with some metaballs and transformed them to meshes. When I added a decimator modifier it crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/blender-bin
Package: blender 2.46+dfsg-4
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: blender-bin -w
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: blender
StacktraceTop:
 BKE_ptcache_id_reset ()
 BKE_ptcache_object_reset ()
 DAG_scene_flush_update ()
 DAG_object_flush_update ()
 enter_editmode ()
Title: blender-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in BKE_ptcache_id_reset()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:BKE_ptcache_object_reset (ob=0xaf172958, mode=0)
DAG_scene_flush_update (sce=0xae708a00, lay=1, time=0)
DAG_object_flush_update (sce=0xae708a00, ob=0xae50e988, flag=2)
enter_editmode (wc=1) at source/blender/src/editobject.c:1735
convertmenu () at source/blender/src/editobject.c:3023

[Nazo (lovesyao)]

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[Nazo (lovesyao)]

Note: upstream bug may be this: https://developer.blender.org/T24277