gcm-calibrate crashes ("double free or corruption") partway through calibration

[Asa Zernik]

Monitor: Acer V223W, connected through HDMI port

Calibration device: X-Rite i1 Display Pro

I re-ran gcm-calibrate manually from the command-line; full console output is attached, including stacktrace.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-color-manager 3.22.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jan 10 21:34:18 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-03 (342 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: gnome-color-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-13 (58 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Kakurady Drakenar (kakurady)]

Tried to calibrate scanner with ColorChecker passport, this happened to me too.

[Anton Keks (anton-azib)]

Wow, looking at the stack trace it seems that it fails trying to play a short 'ding' when the calibration has been completed. Epic fail :-)

(gcm-calibrate:6632): Gcm-WARNING **: VTE: could not screenscrape: 'Profile check complete, peak err = 167.192701, avg err = 51.477333, RMS = 60.497998'
*** Error in `gcm-calibrate': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x000055bb4f756310 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x790cb)[0x7fc300bfa0cb]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x8275a)[0x7fc300c0375a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4c)[0x7fc300c0718c]
gcm-calibrate(+0xb3e4)[0x55bb4e2693e4]
gcm-calibrate(+0xd525)[0x55bb4e26b525]
gcm-calibrate(+0xed7b)[0x55bb4e26cd7b]
gcm-calibrate(+0x11afc)[0x55bb4e26fafc]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x15a)[0x7fc3011b068a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x4aa40)[0x7fc3011b0a40]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x2c)[0x7fc3011b0aec]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(g_application_run+0x20d)[0x7fc30176c70d]
gcm-calibrate(+0x8865)[0x55bb4e266865]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1)[0x7fc300ba13f1]
gcm-calibrate(+0x893a)[0x55bb4e26693a]
======= Memory map: ========
55bb4e25e000-55bb4e27c000 r-xp 00000000 103:02 2633874 /usr/bin/gcm-calibrate
55bb4e47c000-55bb4e47d000 r--p 0001e000 103:02 2633874 /usr/bin/gcm-calibrate
55bb4e47d000-55bb4e47e000 rw-p 0001f000 103:02 2633874 /usr/bin/gcm-calibrate
55bb4f5a5000-55bb4fb4f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
7fc2cffff000-7fc2d4000000 rw-s 00000000 00:16 17 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-550396211
7fc2d4000000-7fc2d8000000 rw-s 00000000 00:05 187206 /memfd:pulseaudio (deleted)
7fc2d8000000-7fc2d8051000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fc2d8051000-7fc2dc000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
7fc2dd9f6000-7fc2ddbf6000 rw-s 00000000 00:05 6782989 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
7fc2ddbf6000-7fc2ddc83000 r-xp 00000000 103:02 2630946 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so.2.0.11
7fc2ddc83000-7fc2dde82000 ---p 0008d000 103:02 2630946 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so.2.0.11
7fc2dde82000-7fc2dde9e000 r--p 0008c000 103:02 2630946 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so.2.0.11
7fc2dde9e000-7fc2dde9f000 rw-p 000a8000 103:02 2630946 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so.2.0.11
7fc2dde9f000-7fc2ddf12000 r-xp 00000000 103:02 2629355 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so.8.3.0

[Anton Keks (anton-azib)]

The problem seem to be fixed upstream:
https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-color-manager/commit/edd8cf7598c009c8494396663401da80d12caf9d

A patch is needed?

Calibration seems to be totally broken in 16.10 without it.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option