xfce keyboard crashes when selecting latam layout

Bug #899290 reported by Gregory M. Blumenthal Scharf
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xfce4-xkb-plugin
Unknown
Unknown
xfce4-xkb-plugin (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Lionel Le Folgoc

Bug Description

xfce keyboard crashes when selecting latam layout

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xfce4-xkb-plugin 0.5.4.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/xfce4-xkb-plugin/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x21d50c05 ***
Date: Fri Dec 2 11:27:40 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/xfce4-xkb-plugin/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/xfce4-xkb-plugin/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin 20 18877580 xkb-plugin Keyboard\ Layouts Keyboard\ layouts\ setup\ and\ switch\ plugin
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_MX.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: xfce4-xkb-plugin
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0xdbf080 "*** 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=0x21d50c05) at malloc.c:6283
 _int_free (av=0xdfb400, p=0x21d50bfd) at malloc.c:4795
 __GI___libc_free (mem=0x21d50c05) at malloc.c:3738
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: xfce4-xkb-plugin assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/xfce4-xkb-plugin/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x21d50c05 ***
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (49 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lp lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare

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Gregory M. Blumenthal Scharf (llameadrpc) wrote :
visibility: private → public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0xdbf080 "*** 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=0x21d50c05) at malloc.c:6283
 _int_free (av=0xdfb400, p=0x21d50bfd) at malloc.c:4795
 __GI___libc_free (mem=0x21d50c05) at malloc.c:3738
 standard_free (mem=0x21d50c05) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./glib/gmem.c:101

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Changed in xfce4-xkb-plugin (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in xfce4-xkb-plugin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote :

Rookie programming error in xkb-util.c. The attached patch (against git master) fixes it for me. Will forward to the upstream.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

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tags: added: patch
Changed in xfce4-xkb-plugin (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in xfce4-xkb-plugin (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xfce4-xkb-plugin - 0.5.4.3-1ubuntu1

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xfce4-xkb-plugin (0.5.4.3-1ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches:
    - 01_fix-invalid-free.patch: added, fix crash when selecting latam layout
      (thanks Daniel Richard G. for the patch). lp: #899290
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:58:26 +0100

Changed in xfce4-xkb-plugin (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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