out of memory causes crashes on importing

[Chris Harding]

Binary package hint: pitivi

Ubuntu 10.4

Expected to either import or return error

Window closed. Crash alert appeared.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pitivi 0.13.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic-pae 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0a1e28c8 ***
Date: Tue Apr 6 19:18:46 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pitivi
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/pitivi
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: pitivi
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: pitivi assert failure: *** glibc detected *** python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0a1e28c8 ***
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>,

[Edward Hervey (bilboed) (bilboed-deactivatedaccount)]

Wow, talk about verbose bug description. At least the backtrace gave more info than the user. This is an out-of-memory issue, same as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593377

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

0.93 is now available in Ubuntu 14.04, which fixes the importing issue. The rest (memory usage) is another story.