gnome-system-log assert failure: *** glibc detected *** gnome-system-log: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x08e2c2a0 ***

Bug #818516 reported by dino99
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
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Bug Description

Oneiric i386

got this crash while trying to add xorg.0.log (20.6 kB) as an entry into logviewer
Have added previously syslog & kern.log without trouble, but this third entry made it crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-system-log 3.1.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic-pae 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** gnome-system-log: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x08e2c2a0 ***
Date: Sat Jul 30 15:13:01 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-log
ProcCmdline: gnome-system-log
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: gnome-system-log assert failure: *** glibc detected *** gnome-system-log: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x08e2c2a0 ***
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin audio avahi avahi-autoipd boinc cdrom couchdb crontab daemon debian-tor dialout disk fuse haldaemon klog kmem libuuid lpadmin mail messagebus mlocate mysql mythtv netdev ntp operator plugdev polkituser pulse root sambashare saned shadow ssh ssl-cert sudo syslog tty users utmp video voice www-data

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :
visibility: private → public
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

have retried again to populate it with xorg.0.log but got a crash again.

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
 abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0xb6e70a2c "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:189
 malloc_printerr (action=<value optimized out>, str=<value optimized out>, ptr=0x8e2c2a0) at malloc.c:6283

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: bugpattern-needed
tags: added: precise
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

That issue seems gone from ages; maybe time to close it.

Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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bojojo@orange.fr (bojojo-orange) wrote :

"[Bug 8185] Re: gnome-system-log assert failure: *** glibc detected *** gnome-system-log: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x08e2c2a0 ***"
Launchpad Bug Tracker doc

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