unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in posix_memalign()

[TJ Rosene]

I tried to turn up my volume with the volume slider in the menu.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-services 4.16.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
BootLog:
 fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
 /dev/sda1: clean, 194439/2379216 files, 1647299/9505280 blocks (check in 5 mounts)
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Sun Sep 25 21:56:28 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T42 2373-4WU [1014:0530]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: IBM 2378DMU
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=361f3afb-8740-4182-8cb9-5f67ab2e335a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb62d34 <posix_memalign+20>: call 0xbfcb63
 PC (0x00b62d34) ok
 source "0xbfcb63" (0x00bfcb63) ok
 destination "(%esp)" (0xbf765ff8) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 posix_memalign () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_list_prepend () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 gtk_window_list_toplevels () from /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0
Title: unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in posix_memalign()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors: (process:1916): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
dmi.bios.date: 06/18/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1RETDRWW (3.23 )
dmi.board.name: 2378DMU
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1RETDRWW(3.23):bd06/18/2007:svnIBM:pn2378DMU:pvrThinkPadT41:rvnIBM:rn2378DMU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2378DMU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T41
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.94+bzr20110919-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[TJ Rosene (teejay17)]

Also, I was using VLC to watch a video.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #834333, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.