whoopsie assert failure: malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected

[Peter Freeman]

I was running rsync to copy files from a USB stick when suddenly the USB stick was unmounted.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: whoopsie 0.2.72
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-18.19-generic 5.8.4
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu48
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashReports:
 600:119:125:37:2020-09-29 21:29:25.455482641 -0700:2020-09-29 21:29:25.455482641 -0700:/var/crash/_usr_libexec_tracker-extract.1000.uploaded
 664:1000:125:0:2020-09-29 21:29:38.159510816 -0700:2020-09-29 21:29:38.159510816 -0700:/var/crash/_usr_libexec_tracker-extract.1000.upload
 640:119:125:4975123:2020-09-29 21:29:37.619511842 -0700:2020-09-29 21:29:38.619511842 -0700:/var/crash/_usr_bin_whoopsie.119.crash
 640:1000:125:3482147:2020-09-29 21:29:37.067510604 -0700:2020-09-29 21:29:38.167510833 -0700:/var/crash/_usr_libexec_tracker-extract.1000.crash
Date: Tue Sep 29 21:29:38 2020
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/whoopsie
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/whoopsie -f
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
RebootRequiredPkgs:
 linux-image-5.8.0-20-generic
 linux-base
RelatedPackageVersions: apport-noui N/A
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: whoopsie
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fe41a1b8128 "%s\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:155
 malloc_printerr (str=str@entry=0x7fe41a1ba4b8 "malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected") at malloc.c:5389
 malloc_consolidate (av=av@entry=0x7fe41a1eaba0 <main_arena>) at malloc.c:4509
 _int_free (av=0x7fe41a1eaba0 <main_arena>, p=0x562a1fc5cfa0, have_lock=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:4433
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: whoopsie assert failure: malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: N/A
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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1898831, 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.