gedit failed to install/upgrade : gconftool-2: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x087aa7a0

[Ulrike]

Binary package hint: update-manager

After upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 there is no network connection anymore
forthermore the update manager could not be upgraded properly

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

From your log files, the cause of the failure is
=====
Setting up gedit (2.24.1-0ubuntu1) ...
*** glibc detected *** gconftool-2: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x087aa7a0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7bde3f4]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x96)[0xb7be0456]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free+0x36)[0xb7d27c06]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17d61]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_slist_foreach+0x27)[0xb7d3eec7]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17dd2]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17e2f]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17e57]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17e57]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17e57]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17e57]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17e57]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f17e57]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so(markup_tree_unref+0x9e)[0xb7f1d7ae]
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so[0xb7f16571]
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4(gconf_source_free+0x2d)[0xb7dba57d]
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4(gconf_sources_free+0x2a)[0xb7dba5fa]
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4(gconf_engine_unref+0x46)[0xb7dbfa36]
gconftool-2(main+0xd8f)[0x804f2af]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7b85685]
gconftool-2[0x804abc1]
=====

affecting to gconftool.

Regarding the problem with your network connection, we can't start working on it yet, because your bug report didn't include enough information.

Could you please file a new report against the package "network-manager" and include the information requested at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager.

Thanks in advance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.