compiz assert failure: *** glibc detected *** compiz: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a4668c0 ***

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan]

Compiz just crashed while running firefox. This happens sometimes every day.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libnux-1.0-0 1.14.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** compiz: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a4668c0 ***
CheckboxSubmission: 937160d23272d5619930b6059609b986
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Oct 11 13:15:24 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: compiz
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: nux
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: compiz assert failure: *** glibc detected *** compiz: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a4668c0 ***
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-08 (2 days ago)
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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate an useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

outdated debug symbol package for libtiff4: package version 3.9.5-1ubuntu1 dbgsym version 3.9.4-5ubuntu6
outdated debug symbol package for libthai0: package version 0.1.15-2 dbgsym version 0.1.14-2ubuntu1
outdated debug symbol package for libdatrie1: package version 0.2.4-3 dbgsym version 0.2.4-1
outdated debug symbol package for libltdl7: package version 2.4-2ubuntu1 dbgsym version 2.2.6b-2ubuntu3
outdated debug symbol package for libstartup-notification0: package version 0.12-1 dbgsym version 0.10-1build1

Please upgrade your system to the latest package versions. If you still
encounter the crash, please file a new report.

Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience!