vlc assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/vlc: malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x08f46b54 ***

[William Ray Yeager]

Binary package hint: vlc

tried to play an mp3

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: vlc-nox 1.1.4-1ubuntu1.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/vlc: malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x08f46b54 ***
Date: Mon Apr 25 19:54:23 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/vlc
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
 abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0xcab280 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:189
 malloc_printerr (action=<value optimized out>, str=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, ptr=0x8f46b54) at malloc.c:6283
Title: vlc assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/vlc: malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x08f46b54 ***
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 *__GI_raise (sig=6)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=2,
 malloc_printerr (action=<value optimized out>,

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

glibc detected a heap corruption. From the stack trace, I am almost certain that the assertion failure is not where the problem is. Unfortunately, several threads are active at the time of the crash. They seem to contend for the dlopen() internal lock. The main suspect would be libproxy or the KDE module for libproxy.

We would need the valgrind trace while reproducing the bug:

# valgrind vlc

[William Ray Yeager (wyeager)]

Valgrind caused my computer to choke hard. I managed to save the attached log. Does this help? I'm not sure I can easily repeat the original crash. Most of the time VLC works just fine.

[William Ray Yeager (wyeager)]

The log attached previously is incomplete. Please see attached for the full report.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

That does not help at all as the error was apprently not reproduced while running valgrind. There is absolutely nothing I can do without this.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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