chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in magazine_chain_pop_head()

[Rich Evans]

Was launching a blackboard page and this error came up

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: chromium-browser 16.0.912.77~r118311-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 3 15:37:49 2012
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: /proc/self/exe --type=plugin --plugin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so --lang=en-GB --channel=2597.0x7f05f6eeb900.1614060521
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe6014a977a <g_slice_alloc+490>: mov (%rbx),%rdx
 PC (0x7fe6014a977a) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x7074746800000056) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slice_alloc0 () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_freeze_notify () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-31 (3 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 magazine_chain_pop_head (magazine_chunks=0x7fe607e09810) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.14/./glib/gslice.c:532
 thread_memory_magazine1_alloc (ix=<optimized out>, tmem=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.14/./glib/gslice.c:835
 g_slice_alloc (mem_size=16) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.14/./glib/gslice.c:994
 g_slice_alloc0 (mem_size=16) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.14/./glib/gslice.c:1029
 g_object_notify_queue_freeze (object=0x7fe607ee8230, conditional=0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.14/./gobject/gobject.c:235

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge)]

Happens when trying to run netalyzr with icedtea-6 plugin http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1086613

Title:
  Please update to 23.0.1271.97

Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “chromium-browser” source package in Lucid:
  In Progress
Status in “chromium-browser” source package in Oneiric:
  In Progress
Status in “chromium-browser” source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in “chromium-browser” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  This update will bring all stable releases up to date.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Closing now as this report wasn’t investigated timely and is now too old to be meaningful.
Please do not hesitate to report crashes occurring with recent releases of chromium-browser, they will hopefully be investigated and acted upon in a more timely manner.