busyspheres crashed with SIGSEGV in calloc()

[Luke12]

Binary package hint: rss-glx

Happened while upgrading

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/busyspheres
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rss-glx 0.8.2-1ubuntu3
ProcCmdline: busyspheres -r
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: rss-glx
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb7d07686 in calloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #1 0xb7313c89 in _nv000200gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
 #2 0x00000002 in ?? ()
 Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
StacktraceTop:
 calloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 _nv000200gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
 ?? ()
Title: busyspheres crashed with SIGSEGV in calloc()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse sambashare scanner tape vboxusers video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__libc_calloc (n=1, elem_size=52) at malloc.c:3924
_nv000200gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
?? ()

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The crash is occurring in libGLcore.so.1 so assigning to the driver package.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.