[heap corruption] compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() from malloc() from gtk_icon_theme_lookup_icon() from LauncherIcon::IsMonoDefaultTheme()

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0x7f341200a0d8 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:189
 malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7f341200a480 "malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted", ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:6283
 _int_malloc (av=0x7f33e0000020, bytes=15) at malloc.c:4308
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=15) at malloc.c:3660
 g_malloc (n_bytes=15) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.90/./glib/gmem.c:164

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

I got this bug today when I unplugged a usb device.

Is bug #820013 also a duplicate of this?

fyi: i haven't seen this issue anymore.

running
compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu6
unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1

on ubuntu 11.10

Just got it today on current precise, so not fixed yet.

up to date Ubuntu 12.04 (development)
I get this message every time the computer restarts and log into desktop using Unity shell.

Do not seem to get message if gnome-shell is used

Bug also affects me. When it crashed I went ahead and filed a report - after filing and some searching around I marked it as a duplicate of this bug. Bug happened to me when I was dragging and dropping a shortcut to the unity panel. Video I was watching froze and the window manager (compiz) crashed.

a brief terminal command of 'apt-cache policy compiz' reveals the following.
apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.7.0~bzr2995-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:0.9.7.0~bzr2995-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.7.0~bzr2995-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My system was updated on the 26th of February 2012 with the latest version of unity installed (unsure of the version number but it is 5.0 or higher. will report back with an exact number when I get back to machine). When compiz crashed the bug reporter auto-filled the title of it with the title of this bug report.

This is a crash in malloc(). That means the heap of the entire compiz process is corrupt and the root cause of the corruption is unknown (NOT in the stacktrace).

Though, I believe we fixed *most* of the potential causes of heap corruption in the unity 5.12 update. And no duplicates of this bug have appeared for a while so it's possibly fixed by one of the fixes in unity 5.12.

Setting to Incomplete so it will eventually expire unless someone else finds the same problem again.

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

[Expired for unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

i got a bug report on 13.04 (raring ringtail). Error in `compiz': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08f3000b

Does it seems to be connected to it?