gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in memalign() while adding a new timezone

[JudgeDredd]

application crashed while trying to add a timezone to the clock applet.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 2 19:41:35 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center indicator-datetime
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=es_PY.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xdf6ef4: mov 0x4(%esi),%eax
 PC (0x00df6ef4) ok
 source "0x4(%esi)" (0x00000007) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 memalign () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 posix_memalign () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in memalign()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-02 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 malloc_consolidate (av=0xf01400) at malloc.c:5153
 malloc_consolidate (av=0xf01400) at malloc.c:5089
 _int_malloc (av=0xf01400, bytes=528) at malloc.c:4373
 _int_memalign (av=0xf01400, alignment=256, bytes=248) at malloc.c:5492
 __GI___libc_memalign (alignment=256, bytes=248) at malloc.c:3880

[Olli Ries (ories)]

please reopen if problem still exists

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This appears to be a memory corruption issue -- as the subject suggests, this is happening deep inside the memory allocator, in this case when called by glib's slab allocator.

JD, thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Precise Pangolin. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ .

If the crash persists in Precise, please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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