notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc() while getting a message in empathy

[Justin C]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Crash while getting a empathy message.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
Package: notify-osd 0.9.6-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: notify-osd
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
 xcb_poll_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Title: notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:_int_malloc (av=0xb77eb140, bytes=8) at malloc.c:4202
*__GI___libc_malloc (bytes=8) at malloc.c:3551
_xcb_in_read (c=0x9a2d0a0)
xcb_poll_for_event (c=0x9a2d0a0)
wait_or_poll_for_event (dpy=0x9a2cb60, wait=176177072)

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Greetings Justin! Can you please try the latest notify-osd release 0.9.9 and see if you still get this crash?

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Right now I'm using empathy with notify-osd 0.9.9 running and have not been able to get a crash yet. Looking at the stacktrace it's gtk->glib->xlib->xcb->libc (some memory allocation in xcb failing) and it does not seem to be happening in notify-osd itself.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

After a day of running empathy with notify-osd 0.9.9 I've not experienced a single crash. Futhertmore the StackTrace attached to this bug-report clearly shows that the segfault is not happening in notify-osd's code, but rather triggered from xlib/xcb. We linked that as an affected project.