[sound]: gnome-control-center assert failure: *** Error in `gnome-control-center': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000001683200 ***

[To mas]

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu33
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** Error in `gnome-control-center': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000001683200 ***
Date: Tue Sep 3 01:39:29 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130902.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center sound
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f5516f776a0 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:199
 malloc_printerr (ptr=0x1683200, str=0x7f5516f77868 "double free or corruption (fasttop)", action=3) at malloc.c:4902
 _int_free (av=<optimized out>, p=0x16831f0, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:3758
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/control-center-1/panels/libsound.so
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__STRINGv () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: [sound]: gnome-control-center assert failure: *** Error in `gnome-control-center': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000001683200 ***
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1

[To mas (ytom48)]

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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f5516f776a0 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:199
 malloc_printerr (ptr=0x1683200, str=0x7f5516f77868 "double free or corruption (fasttop)", action=3) at malloc.c:4902
 _int_free (av=<optimized out>, p=0x16831f0, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:3758
 update_theme (chooser=0x1ce4b00) at gvc-sound-theme-chooser.c:683
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__STRINGv (closure=0x1cfb4f0, return_value=<optimized out>, instance=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>, marshal_data=<optimized out>, n_params=<optimized out>, param_types=0x1ce6d60) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gmarshal.c:1004

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

I have this problem in Ubuntu Gnome 17.10

corrado@corrado-HP-aGnome:~$ gnome-control-center region

** (gnome-control-center:2370): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher gufw (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:2370): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher landscape-client-settings (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:2370): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher language-selector (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:2370): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher system-config-printer (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:2370): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher ubuntuone-installer (missing desktop file)

(gnome-control-center:2370): common-cc-panel-WARNING **: Language en_US.UTF-8 not installed, trying to install it
*** Error in `gnome-control-center': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000563121443800 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7908b)[0x7ff61c9f208b]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x826fa)[0x7ff61c9fb6fa]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4c)[0x7ff61c9ff12c]
gnome-control-center(+0x9bb83)[0x56311f5ddb83]
gnome-control-center(+0x9bd17)[0x56311f5ddd17]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0x88e53)[0x7ff61d54de53]
......
7ff60ad38000-7ff60ad39000 rw-p 0005e000 08:07 1454385 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebp.so.6.0.2
7ff60ad39000-7ff60ad3a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7ff60ad3a000-7ff60ada3000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 1453786 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8.1.2
7ff60ada3000-7ff60afa2000 ---p 00069000 08:07 1453786 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8.1.2
7ff60afa2000-7ff60afa3000 r--p 00068000 08:07 1453786 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8.1.2Aborted (core dumped)
corrado@corrado-HP-aGnome:~$

I can reproduce problem; let me know if I should add other info.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

adding .crash file

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug hasn't seen any activity in years and there has been no recent similar reports, the code also changed quite a lot since and it's likely the issue doesn't exist anymore. Closing, feel free to open a new report if you still get problems in recent Ubuntu versions