Apport caught this crash and offered to send a report. Here's the result.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: cpufreqd 2.4.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** /usr/sbin/cpufreqd: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0825fd18 ***
Date: Sat Sep 17 21:30:35 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/cpufreqd
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/cpufreqd -f /etc/cpufreqd.conf
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: cpufreqd
StacktraceTop:
__libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0x590080 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:189
malloc_printerr (action=<optimized out>, str=<optimized out>, ptr=0x825fd18) at malloc.c:6283
_int_free (av=0x5cc400, p=0x825fd10) at malloc.c:4795
__GI___libc_free (mem=0x825fd18) at malloc.c:3738
sysfs_read_attribute () from /lib/libsysfs.so.2
Title: cpufreqd assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/sbin/cpufreqd: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0825fd18 ***
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2009-09-14 (733 days ago)
UserGroups:
mtime.conffile..etc.cpufreqd.conf: 2011-07-13T18:43:58
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