gnome-screensaver-gl-helper crashed with SIGSEGV in memalign()

[Søren Bredlund Caspersen]

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

Running latest karmic beta. I had left the computer for an hour or so, when I came back, the error reporting tool was there. No idea what triggered this.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 21 10:19:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver-gl-helper
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-screensaver 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-usernamereensaver/gnome-usernamereensaver-gl-helper
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb1dbf2: mov %edi,0x4(%ecx)
 PC (0x00b1dbf2) ok
 source "%edi" ok
 destination "0x4(%ecx)" (0x0818a214) in non-writable VMA region: 0x0818a000-0x0818b000 r--p None
SegvReason: writing VMA None
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 memalign () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 posix_memalign () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-screensaver-gl-helper crashed with SIGSEGV in memalign()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:_int_malloc (av=<value optimized out>, bytes=<value optimized out>)
_int_memalign (av=0xbf13a0, alignment=512, bytes=504)
*__GI___libc_memalign (alignment=512, bytes=504)
__posix_memalign (memptr=0xbfad8b5c, alignment=0,
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

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.

[Søren Bredlund Caspersen (soeren-b-c)]

I can't reproduce, so I will just mark this bug invalid.