empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x09a60b58 ***

[Siddhant Saraf]

Just opened empathy. It showed up for some time & while logging in, it crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x09a60b58 ***
Date: Sat Feb 4 13:32:03 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x09a60b58 ***
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Siddhant Saraf (siddhantsaraf)]

Attached a valgrind log from the crash.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #848452, 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.