unity-panel-service crashed due to heap corruption in g_free() from service_proxy_name_changed() [libindicator/indicator-service-manager.c:574]

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

This occured when launching chrome from launch pad.

This bug happens for me consistently when I close my netbook to go into suspend mode. My workaround (although not a good one, as I normally suspend all the time) is to disable all suspend options. I will keep this workaround until this bug is resolved.

Rebooted into Ubuntu (Unity) interface and at the terminal used "gnome-shell --replace" command and the system crashed.

When this bug occurs I see no visible effects on the desktop other than the pop-up to report the problem.

I am not sure that this is the correct bug for me. I only comment here because apport sent me to bug #969393, which is a duplicate of this bug.

I was copying a partition to another with gparted on my external USB drive. This must have created a bottleneck (neither on the cpu nor with swap). As a consequence my desktop became unresponsive. Every window greyed out from time to time including the active one. To investigate the problem i switched to tty1 with ctrl-alt-F1. When I came back to my graphical desktop, apport reported this internal error of ubuntu. Aside from the unresponsiveness only my name in the indicator got wrong. It now shows [invalid UTF-8].

I hope, this helps.

Marco: ugh. Thanks very much for this fix.

Ulrich: Well, bug #969393 is definitely a duplicate of this one. Regarding the use case you described, please try it again after doing an upgrade to pick up Marco's fix for this bug, and please report a new bug if the problem persists. Thanks!

me 2 4 several times

After this morning upgrade no more trouble with starting unity.

This bug occurs when I start the update manager to check for updates. I can not see no effects on the desktop other than the pop-up to report the problem.

Cheers,
Steffen

Upgraded DDR 3 system memory from 4GB to 8 GB two days ago. ubuntu 11.10 and Linux Mint 12 on this same machine have exhibited no problems with this configuration. Ububtu 12.04 did not have any problems until a rather large update was performed and the computer was restarted. Performing a search in Synaptic when the problem occurred.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu laptop testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/969360

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.10.0-0ubuntu3

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unity (5.10.0-0ubuntu3) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Oliver Grawert ]
  * Enable subarch specific quilt support
  * add linaros disable_standalone-clients.patch to make unity build with GLES

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * remove a symlink and replace with a real file for
    debian/patches/series.<arch> as not supported in non v3 (and we don't
    want v3 format with full source upstream derived branch)

unity (5.10.0-0ubuntu2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Ricardo Salveti de Araujo ]
  * Enabling build with OpenGL ES2.0 support for ARM and disable maintainer
     mode on that arch to avoid -Werror failure (LP: #980544)

unity (5.10.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - bamfdaemon crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message() (LP: #926208)
    - We are using 1 bad hack for compiz hanging on startup (LP: #963264)
    - GConf backend steals glib events from compiz (LP: #965220)
    - when I closed QupZill brawser it crashed and then and then I sow
      worrning that compiz crashed but fire fox and chrome is estle working.
      gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGSEGV in max_window_name_width()
      (LP: #948580)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in std::basic_string<...>::basic_string()
      from unity::launcher::HudLauncherIcon::HudLauncherIcon()::{lambda} from
      unity::UBusManager::OnCallback (LP: #964897)
    - unity-panel-service crashed due to heap corruption in g_free() from
      service_proxy_name_changed() [libindicator/indicator-service-
      manager.c:574] (LP: #969360)
    - Opening dash while an application is maximized makes unity completely
      useless, have to relogin (LP: #975103)
    - unity crash on alt-tab (LP: #975168)
    - Top bar - Menus should be condensed to fit panel/overlay of appmenu
      (LP: #655184)
    - Topbar - window controls for maximised windows in the top bar should
      conform to Fitts's law (LP: #839690)
    - [FFe, UIFe] Dash - When the Dash is open and there is a maximised app in
      the background, the top bar background should not disappear
      (LP: #839480)
    - Dash - The inner bottom left, bottom right and top right corners of the
      desktop dash border are rendered incorrectly (LP: #839476)
    - Showdesktoped window contents invisible in window spread (LP: #877778)
    - Maximized windows can be accidentally closed from wrong monitor.
      (LP: #865701)
    - Unity launcher on-screen corruption on resume from suspend with nVidia
      proprietary driver (LP: #915265)
    - Launcher - Inserting items into launcher makes unnecessary animations on
      other monitors (LP: #925021)
    - Far left character in panel (and launcher popups) distorted
      (LP: #927441)
    - Jenkins build failure: SetAcceptKeyNavFocusOnMouseEnter not declared
      (LP: #938037)
    - super+<unbound key> and sometimes super+<number> keys now cause launch
      to wedge with the key hints shown and retains focus instead of selecting
      the requested window (LP: #934084)
    - three-finger move does not move (Precise) (LP: #940612)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in std::__de...