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empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc_consolidate()

Bug #921340 reported by Michael Hall on 2012-01-25

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This bug affects 35 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	empathy (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Not actively using empathy, but it was running in the background. Focused window was not empathy.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.3.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.17-generic-pae 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 24 13:38:38 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xb5116d04: cmp 0x10(%edx),%edi
PC (0xb5116d04) ok
source "0x10(%edx)" (0x00000010) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%edi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: empathy
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
realloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
dbus_realloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
Title: empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in realloc()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-23 (1 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Michael Hall (mhall119) wrote on 2012-01-25:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (581 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (141 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (46.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (804 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (481 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (7.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-01-25:

#2

StacktraceTop:
malloc_consolidate (av=0xb5220400) at malloc.c:5169
malloc_consolidate (av=0xb5220400) at malloc.c:5089
_int_free (av=0xb5220400, p=0x97a9560) at malloc.c:5034
_int_realloc (av=0xb5220400, oldp=0x97a9550, oldsize=4120, nb=16) at malloc.c:5369
__GI___libc_realloc (oldmem=0x97a9558, bytes=8) at malloc.c:3821

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-01-25: Stacktrace.txt

#3

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-01-25: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (18.4 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
summary:	- empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in realloc() + empathy-chat crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc_consolidate()
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote on 2012-01-26:

#5

yhanks for the bug report
define the steps to reproduce it in mpathy 3.3.4 ?

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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote on 2012-01-28:

#6

Thank you for taking time in filing the bug to make ubuntu better,
* is it reproduceable?
* can you please provide the steps to reproduce it.?
* can you still reproduce it with empathy 3.3.4?
thanks

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
importance:	Medium → High
visibility:	private → public

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-29:

#7

[Expired for empathy (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Expired

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Jérôme Poulin (jeromepoulin) wrote on 2015-02-24:

#8

Just happened on 3.12.7.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status:	Expired → Confirmed

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lemonade (lemonade) wrote on 2015-03-30:

#9

Happened on 3.12.8 as well.

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Andrew Silvers (airbus) wrote on 2015-08-28:

#10

Happens regularly on 3.12.9 now. Ubuntu 15.04 amd64.

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Jérôme Poulin (jeromepoulin) wrote on 2016-02-02:

#11

Regulary happens now on Xenial.

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Steve Williams (steve-fi) wrote on 2016-02-03:

#12

On Xenial, it happens to me every time I close the chat window (not the contact window).

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