synaptic crashed with signal 7 in _int_malloc()

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]

Not sure about how to reproduce. I may be this machine's low memory, bah.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: synaptic 0.81.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-22.44-generic 3.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg.txt:
 [ 34.892887] r8169 0000:07:00.0 eth0: link up
 [ 34.892898] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
 [ 36.093179] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning
 [ 44.404719] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning
 [ 132.245018] systemd-timedated[2492]: /etc/localtime should be a symbolic link to a timezone data file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.
Date: Sat Apr 5 17:44:23 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-23 (41 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140221)
ProcCmdline: synaptic
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_MX.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=es_MX:es
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 7
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0xb68df420 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=6) at malloc.c:3389
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=6) at malloc.c:2891
 g_malloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_value_set_string () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: synaptic crashed with signal 7 in _int_malloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0xb68df420 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=6) at malloc.c:3389
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=6) at malloc.c:2891
 g_malloc (n_bytes=n_bytes@entry=6) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.0/./glib/gmem.c:97
 g_strdup (str=str@entry=0x9d3b9e0 "Hecho") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.0/./glib/gstrfuncs.c:356
 g_value_set_string (value=value@entry=0xbf833b7c, v_string=0x9d3b9e0 "Hecho") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.0/./gobject/gvaluetypes.c:1038

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Since it's an error in malloc, you're probably correct about running out of memory. Try increasing swap partition/file size.

[Popolon (popolon)]

I had the same problem with an upgrade from 13.04 to 14.04 on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM. I hopefully looked at the output console during the crash alert, and this was related to a font installation, that is already a good clue. Don't know which one, could be a chinese one, as it's used on this system.

After upgrade tool crashed, I tried to restore some coherent state on the system. then I launched synaptic from a term, and mostly everything is frozen with lot of erros about gtk in the term. I can't log anymore from the pure text console (ctrl+alt+f1) and X11 is frozen since at least 10 minutes

[Popolon (popolon)]

After rebooting, I used a console terminal to log and had the following message :

No tallog stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4684, leaking memory

[Popolon (popolon)]

Managed to finish the install by rebooting and using apt-get to install remaining packages.

The taillog strackframe message occur at each sudo action