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notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

Bug #438626 reported by Christian Ide on 2009-09-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #437088: notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in free(). Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	notify-osd (Ubuntu)	In Progress	High	Mirco Müller	Ubuntu ubuntu-9.10

Bug Description

Binary package hint: notify-osd

The crash appears randomly in Karmic, mostly triggered by mailnotify.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Sep 29 11:10:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
GtkTheme: Dust-Netbook
IconTheme: Humanity
MachineType: Acer AOA110
Package: notify-osd 0.9.22-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=f014da7e-6eaf-4dee-a0f2-92f591c40600 ro quiet splash elevator=deadline
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu6
libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x6be878d <free+93>: cmpxchg %ecx,(%esi)
PC (0x06be878d) ok
source "%ecx" ok
destination "(%esi)" (0x74c08504) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: notify-osd
StacktraceTop:
free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
g_free () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
fallback_dialog_show ()
stack_notify_handler ()
dbus_glib_marshal_stack_VOID__STRING_UINT_STRING_STRING_STRING_BOXED_BOXED_INT_POINTER ()
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare
WindowManager: compiz
dmi.bios.date: 10/06/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: v0.3310
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrv0.3310:bd10/06/2008:svnAcer:pnAOA110:pvr1:rvnAcer:rn:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnChassisManufacturer:ct1:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: AOA110
dmi.product.version: 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

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Christian Ide (cide) wrote on 2009-09-29:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (46.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (648 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsmod.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (11.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (455 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (24.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (762 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (482 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (92.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (185.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (74.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (71.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (16.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (52.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (19.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2009-09-29

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-9.10
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
importance:	Undecided → High

Ken Wilson (kwjr) on 2009-10-03

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
status:	Confirmed → New

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steehle (steehle) wrote on 2009-10-06:

This affects me aswell, and has done since I upgraded to Karmic. On my machine it is only triggered by mail-notification when I receive a new mail, so an educated guess would (of course) be that it is triggered when mail-notification tries to show a popup (that I never have a chance to see, since notify-osd crashes).

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-06:

Christian, steehle: How did you configure mail-notification on your system (with evolutoin, using a POP3 inbox or IMAP...)? I want to be able to exactly reproduce this crash here on my system. At the moment I cannot get mail-notification to trigger a notification with expire-timeout or action thus causing a fallback-dialog to be shown.

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-06:

I've managed to get mail-notification setup to look into an email-inbox, triggering notifications (with actions, thus the fallback-dialog), while notify-osd was runnung under gdb. I tried it a couple of times and did not get any crash.

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Christian Ide (cide) wrote on 2009-10-06:

I get my emails via imap from a google mail account. My system is an acer aspire one netbook (slow system) connected via wlan. The crash appears after nearly every boot. Last time right now. I even had to restart the mail notification applet manually. The crash never appears later on.

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Christian Ide (cide) wrote on 2009-10-06:

Suddenly it comes to my mind that I put mail-notification manually into start programs. Maybe that is the problem?

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steehle (steehle) wrote on 2009-10-06:

I have mail-notification configured with a gmail account.

But, I must add, that I marked this as affecting me after doing an upgrade this morning. Since then I have done another upgrade with a bunch of packages that were released after my comment, and now I can't reproduce the problem anymore. Hopefully it stays that way.

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Scott Lewin (sclewin) wrote on 2009-10-06: Re: [Bug 438626] Re: notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

Christian Ide wrote:
> Suddenly it comes to my mind that I put mail-notification manually into
> start programs. Maybe that is the problem?
>
I have also added mail-notification into start programs and see the
exact same problem on startup, but receive no problems after I manually
start mail-notification.

--
Your friend,
Scott
http://sgaming.ca

Sent to you from a Linux computer using Ubuntu Version 9.10

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steehle (steehle) wrote on 2009-10-06:

Oh, when you mention it, I did start mail-notification manually this time. Usually I have it start with the start-up programs. Could it have something to do with it being started before notify-osd?

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Captain Haggy (captainhaggy) wrote on 2009-10-14:

#10

It crashes, when started manually, and it crashes, when it's started via autostart on my Eee PC 1000H. The crash happens - sometimes - when I get a new mail via my gmail account.

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-15:

#11

Still unable to reproduce this one. steehle, Haggy did you try the latest 0.9.23 of notify-osd yet?

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2009-10-15

Changed in notify-osd:
status:	New → Incomplete
importance:	Undecided → High
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)

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steehle (steehle) wrote on 2009-10-15:

#12

I have upgraded all packages with the latest version since I upgraded to Karmic (alpha 2 at that time), and this happens every time I receive a new mail. I even did a fresh Karmic install when alpha 3 was released, still the same. Strange thing you can't reproduce it. Is there any more info I can provide to help out?

David Barth (dbarth) on 2009-10-16

Changed in notify-osd:
milestone:	none → ubuntu-9.10

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2009-10-16

Changed in notify-osd:
status:	Incomplete → In Progress
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → In Progress

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2014-02-11

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