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gnome-terminal package

gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()

Bug #333149 reported by Ryan on 2009-02-23

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When I unplugged and replugged a USB drive, my terminal window with 3 terminals open crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-terminal 2.25.91-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
cairo_create () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
setup_backing_rect_method (method=0xbfdd3d24,
Title: gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev vboxusers video

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Related branches

lp:~dholbach/gnome-terminal/fix-memory-corruption

Merged into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu

No reviews requested

lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu

lp:ubuntu/karmic/wxwidgets2.8

lp:ubuntu/lucid/gnome-terminal

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Ryan (ubuntu-draziw) wrote on 2009-02-23:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (524 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (24.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (802 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (512 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (6.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (7.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-02-23: Symbolic stack trace

#2

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (7.0 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:malloc_consolidate () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
_int_malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
*INT_cairo_create (target=0x9ba0fd8)
setup_backing_rect_method (method=0xbfdd3d24,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-02-23: Symbolic threaded stack trace

#3

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-23:

#4

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Incomplete

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-02-24:

#5

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-terminal - 2.25.91-0ubuntu2

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gnome-terminal (2.25.91-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/30_SVNr3329_fix_memory_corruption.patch: apply patch from
    SVN upstream that fixes memory corruption in gnome-terminal.
    (LP: #331462, LP: #333819, LP: #333149, LP: #332673)

-- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:22:32 +0100

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released

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