bluetoothd crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI___libc_free()

[Markus J Schmidt]

bluetoothd crashes at startup

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: bluez 4.98-2ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-58.88-generic 3.2.53
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 10 21:46:15 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130213)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
MachineType: LENOVO 0769B2G
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 TERM=linux
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-58-generic root=UUID=4153a498-00f0-466e-a060-6af1785b63ec ro quiet splash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fccf795154c <free+28>: mov -0x8(%rdi),%rsi
 PC (0x7fccf795154c) ok
 source "-0x8(%rdi)" (0xfffffffffffffffb) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rsi" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: bluez
StacktraceTop:
 free () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 dbus_connection_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
Title: bluetoothd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 06/11/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 68ET37WW
dmi.board.name: IEL10
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: REFERENCE
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr68ET37WW:bd06/11/2008:svnLENOVO:pn0769B2G:pvr3000N200:rvnLENOVO:rnIEL10:rvrREFERENCE:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: 0769B2G
dmi.product.version: 3000 N200
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 00:19:7E:FF:48:39 ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:1282 acl:0 sco:0 events:51 errors:0
  TX bytes:491 acl:0 sco:0 commands:51 errors:0

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __GI___libc_free (mem=0x3) at malloc.c:2970
 server_disconnect (conn=<optimized out>, user_data=0x7fccfa6416c0) at network/server.c:591
 service_filter (connection=0x7fccfa639b80, message=<optimized out>, user_data=0x7fccfa65df50) at gdbus/watch.c:477
 message_filter (connection=0x7fccfa639b80, message=0x7fccfa63c590, user_data=<optimized out>) at gdbus/watch.c:527
 dbus_connection_dispatch (connection=0x7fccfa639b80) at ../../dbus/dbus-connection.c:4603

[Markus J Schmidt (smiddy84)]

Occurs in trusty as well

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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