compiz crashed with SIGABRT in __libc_message()

[Marc DENTY]

compiz crashed while typing in ubuntu's icon application search bar.
I was trying to search for vnc word, the 2 first letters were displayed then the whole desktop become unresponsive.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 6.12.0daily13.03.11-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-12.21-generic 3.8.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 13 16:42:21 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-19 (83 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-30 (42 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers wireshark

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fa3e2467860 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:199
 malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7fa3e2463808 "corrupted double-linked list", ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:4902
 _int_realloc (av=av@entry=0x7fa3e26a1740 <main_arena>, oldp=oldp@entry=0xeec99a0, oldsize=3712, nb=nb@entry=4944) at malloc.c:4192
 __GI___libc_realloc (oldmem=0xeec99b0, bytes=4928) at malloc.c:2984
 ft_mem_qrealloc (memory=memory@entry=0x103e9e0, item_size=item_size@entry=88, cur_count=cur_count@entry=42, new_count=new_count@entry=56, block=<optimized out>, p_error=p_error@entry=0x7fa3a6a40a2c) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.4.11/freetype-2.4.11/src/base/ftutil.c:154

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

Experienced this bug on Utopic while trying to search for synaptic.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 LTS I am marking this bug as Wont Fix. These types of crasher are better handled by errors.ubutnu.com which can collate similar crash reports to help us identify persitent bugs rather than one-off crashes. Sorry we are not able to help with this specific issue. If you are still experiencing this crash, please re-open the bug and add the tag “desktop-bugscrub-reopen”. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BigDesktopBugScrub for more information.