unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in memalign()

Bug #843469 reported by Gord Campbell
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Bug Description

The panel disappeared, and so did the dock. Rebooting produced the same screen, no panel, no dock. I booted into a Lucid kernel and everything was fine, except my wireless wasn't working (as expected). Then I rebooted in the Oneiric kernel, and everything was OK.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-services 4.12.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Tue Sep 6 22:10:08 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.881, 3.0.0-10-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9712] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1444]
JockeyStatus:
 kmod:wl - Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
 kmod:fglrx - ATI Fire GL (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
 xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP G62 Notebook PC
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-10-generic root=UUID=d1d66e3f-3b47-4553-a26f-c0a2122b0c8b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f986d2bbc9c: push %rbx
 PC (0x7f986d2bbc9c) ok
 source "%rbx" ok
 destination "(%rsp)" (0x7fff38091000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 memalign () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 posix_memalign () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in memalign()
UnitySupportTest: Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p', '-f'] failed with exit code -11:
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 06/08/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.0A
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1444
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 69.17
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.0A:bd06/08/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPG62NotebookPC:pvr0499100000242710000020000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1444:rvr69.17:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP G62 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 0499100000242710000020000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.92+bzr2791-0ubuntu2
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu20
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

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Gord Campbell (gordintoronto) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #837877, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

visibility: private → public
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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