unity-system-compositor crashes with SIGABRT [malloc(): memory corruption] from new() from mutable_graphics_module() from mir::frontend::SessionMediator::connect()

[errors.ubuntu.com bug bridge]

The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding unity-system-compositor. This problem was most recently seen with version 0.6.0+16.04.20160609-0ubuntu1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/ff42d7ab6d4e7a23379607f8a5375a837b3a10bd contains more details.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

errors.ubuntu.com reports a few occurrences of this per month.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Looks like we have two threads fighting over shared libraries. Missing some locking?

[Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)]

I don't see this in 17.04, we don't care about USC in 16.04 (and 16.10 where many of the errors were seen is out of support)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mir (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Mir because there has been no activity for 60 days.]