speech-dispatcher assert failure: *** glibc detected *** speech-dispatcher: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08734c78 ***

[Alexandre Demers]

Binary package hint: speech-dispatcher

Tried a simple command has spd-say "Hi"

Crashed, where it should have not and should have said "Hi"

Info about spd-say
spd-say: spd-say 0.4
Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Brailcom, o.p.s.
spd-say comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of spd-say
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

Karmic Koala alpha 5, updated on september, 7th, 2009

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** speech-dispatcher: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08734c78 ***
Date: Tue Sep 8 01:38:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher
Package: speech-dispatcher 0.6.7+git20090514-0ubuntu12
ProcCmdline: speech-dispatcher
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: speech-dispatcher
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: speech-dispatcher assert failure: *** glibc detected *** speech-dispatcher: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08734c78 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
*__GI_raise (sig=6)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
__libc_message (do_abort=2,
malloc_printerr (action=<value optimized out>,

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Natty Narwhal. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Alexandre Demers (oxalin)]

Tested under Maverick and it's working properly now.