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kdebase-workspace package

ksplashx assert failure: double free or corruption

Bug #443975 reported by Robert Moerland on 2009-10-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #355843: ksplashx crashed with SIGSEGV in _start(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace-bin

After upgrading jaunty to karmic alpha 6, after I logon with kdm, the hard disk starts doing something but after a while I get dropped back to kdm again. kdm.log shows that apparently ksplashx crashed due to a double free or corruption. I first blamed the display driver, but after installing xubuntu-desktop, I can post this bug information from the troubled machine without problems (logged in with gdm).

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** ksplashx: double free or corruption (out): 0x08413ad8 ***
Date: Wed Sep 30 23:18:47 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ksplashx
Package: kdebase-workspace-bin 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu14
ProcCmdline: ksplashx Default
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/sh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
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: ksplashx assert failure: *** glibc detected *** ksplashx: double free or corruption (out): 0x08413ad8 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
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Robert Moerland (veel-mail) wrote on 2009-10-05:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (385 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (697 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (455 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (872 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (898 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-10-06: Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain)

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

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-10-06: ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) on 2009-10-06

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private → public

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Robert Moerland (veel-mail) wrote on 2009-10-07:

I've noticed that this bug report is marked as a duplicate, and I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but still I'd like to mention that I did not have this problem with 9.04, what the 'original' bug report is about.