transmission-gtk assert failure: *** glibc detected *** transmission-gtk: malloc(): memory corruption: 0xb4dc4538 ***

[u-foka]

I left transmission running for the night, and found the apport dialog in the morning.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: transmission-gtk 2.33-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** transmission-gtk: malloc(): memory corruption: 0xb4dc4538 ***
Date: Sun Sep 11 07:22:28 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/transmission-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
ProcCmdline: transmission-gtk
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: transmission
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: transmission-gtk assert failure: *** glibc detected *** transmission-gtk: malloc(): memory corruption: 0xb4dc4538 ***
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0xb6c21080 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:189
 malloc_printerr (action=<optimized out>, str=<optimized out>, ptr=0xb4dc4538) at malloc.c:6283
 _int_malloc (av=0xb4d00010, bytes=4941) at malloc.c:4396
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=4941) at malloc.c:3660
 tr_bencInitRaw (val=0xb4d37798, src=0xb4dc31e8, byteCount=4940) at bencode.c:604

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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