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[Bug 879530] Re: Empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0a5536c0 ***

 

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 848452 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848452

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Title:
  Empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc():
  memory corruption (fast): 0x0a5536c0 ***

Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Empathy crashes every other time I launch it since the upgrade to Oneiric.
  The crash occurs a few seconds after the contact list appears.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: empathy 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0a5536c0 ***
  CrashCounter: 1
  Date: Fri Oct 21 14:20:40 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
  ProcCmdline: empathy
  Signal: 6
  SourcePackage: empathy
  StacktraceTop:
   __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0x48119080 "*** 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=0xa5536c0) at malloc.c:6283
   _int_malloc (av=0x48155400, bytes=24) at malloc.c:4308
   __libc_calloc (n=1, elem_size=24) at malloc.c:4065
   ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
  Title: empathy assert failure: *** glibc detected *** empathy: malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0a5536c0 ***
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (6 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout disk lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare vboxusers video
  XsessionErrors:
   (nautilus:2222): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
   (nautilus:2222): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
   (thunderbird-bin:2488): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_client_new: Cannot get book from factory: Invalid source

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