[apport] gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in mallopt()

Bug #94772 reported by André Millet
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

panel crashes when start system

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 22 11:22:13 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 6.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 2.18.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/woul
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:pt_PT
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
StacktraceTop:
 mallopt () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_malloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_value_dup_string () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Uname: Linux clinica 2.6.20-12-386 #2 Wed Mar 21 20:53:13 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev scanner video

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André Millet (andremillet) wrote :
Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Can you run gnome-panel under valgrind and attach a log here? http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Joel Bryan Juliano (joelbryan) wrote :

I think this bug should be investigated much more further, since many gnome applications use malloc(), and using mallopt() and setting up MAXFAST to control malloc() will provide significant improvements and optimizations.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Joel, could you explain your comment about malloc()? The bug you commented on is a gnome-panel crasher

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