systemd-resolved assert failure: *** Error in `/lib/systemd/systemd-resolved': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x000055fd92c8e370 ***

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No video, no desktop on resuming from sleep.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: systemd 231-6git1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-11.12-generic 4.8.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** Error in `/lib/systemd/systemd-resolved': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x000055fd92c8e370 ***
Date: Thu Sep 22 09:17:44 2016
ExecutablePath: /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-FZ140E
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdline: /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-11-generic root=UUID=633c6d1c-5805-4148-a478-9c85ca0b1192 nomodeset ro quiet splash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: systemd
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f7bea34e358 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
 malloc_printerr (ar_ptr=0x7f7bea581b00 <main_arena>, ptr=0x55fd92c8e370, str=0x7f7bea34af7f "malloc(): memory corruption", action=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:5046
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7f7bea581b00 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=1064) at malloc.c:3509
 __libc_calloc (n=<optimized out>, elem_size=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3271
 message_new_empty () from /lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-231.so
Title: systemd-resolved assert failure: *** Error in `/lib/systemd/systemd-resolved': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x000055fd92c8e370 ***
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 04/18/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: R0050J7
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrR0050J7:bd04/18/2007:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-FZ140E:pvrC3LPLMJ8:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-FZ140E
dmi.product.version: C3LPLMJ8
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation

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StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f7bea34e358 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
 malloc_printerr (ar_ptr=0x7f7bea581b00 <main_arena>, ptr=0x55fd92c8e370, str=0x7f7bea34af7f "malloc(): memory corruption", action=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:5046
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7f7bea581b00 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=1064) at malloc.c:3509
 __libc_calloc (n=<optimized out>, elem_size=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3271
 message_new_empty (rtnl=rtnl@entry=0x55fd92c69ff0, ret=ret@entry=0x7ffc6f7b8290) at ../src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/netlink-message.c:52

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thank you for reporting this issue and helping to improve Ubuntu.

This bug was reported against the version of systemd in Ubuntu 16.10, which has reached End Of Life. As such, we will not be fixing bugs in this version of the package. If this problem is reproducible on later supported versions of Ubuntu, please open a new bug (preferably with a fresh backtrace and crashdump) against that version.

(In this particular instance, given the described symptoms and the stack trace presented, it seems quite likely that this was a hardware failure rather than a bug in Ubuntu.)