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notify-osd package

notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

Bug #437088 reported by Antonio Litterio on 2009-09-26

This bug affects 32 people

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Hi to all, I've Ubuntu 9.10, when a new mail is notified to the desktop with "mail-notification", the notify-osd crash.
This crash is sample to replay, install and configure mail-notification, and wait a new mail.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Sep 26 10:43:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
GtkTheme: Human
IconTheme: Humanity
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: notify-osd 0.9.22-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=914d3cdf-685b-4805-a52a-9c26f7c72d66 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.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~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu5
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: 0x4e678d <free+93>: cmpxchg %ecx,(%esi)
PC (0x004e678d) ok
source "%ecx" ok
destination "(%esi)" (0x24748b20) 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 ()
Title: notify-osd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
WindowManager: gnome-wm
dmi.bios.date: 03/20/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0603
dmi.board.name: P5LD2-Deluxe
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0603:bd03/20/2006:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5LD2-Deluxe:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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lp:ubuntu/karmic/notify-osd

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Antonio Litterio (antonio-litterio-gmail) wrote on 2009-09-26:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (38.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (628 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsmod.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (11.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (390 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (19.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (756 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (472 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 (79.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (98.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (216 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (12.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (13.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (8.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (21.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (46.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (22.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-09-26: Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:*__GI___libc_free (mem=0x224268) at malloc.c:3714
g_free () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
fallback_dialog_show (d=0x9af5008,
stack_notify_handler (self=0x9af1590,
dbus_glib_marshal_stack_VOID__STRING_UINT_STRING_STRING_STRING_BOXED_BOXED_INT_POINTER (closure=0xbf910620, return_value=0x0,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-09-26: ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2009-09-29

visibility:

private → public

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2009-10-16

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Medium → High
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
milestone:	none → ubuntu-9.10

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-16:

Branch with fix for this is up for review here lp:~macslow/notify-osd/fix-438417 (just named the branch wrongly).

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-19:

Fix committed to Karmic maintainance branch of notify-osd.

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

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-10-20:

This bug was fixed in the package notify-osd - 0.9.24-0ubuntu1

---------------
notify-osd (0.9.24-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - fixed regression for newline-character replacement in the text_filter
    - fixed fonts issues (LP: #396736)
    - fixed crasher (LP: #425508
    - fixed another crasher (LP: #437088)
    - added workaround for icon-name-prefix substitution
    - fixed accidentally deleted drawing of drop-shadow for title-text
    - avoid re-executing glow-/dim-effect when synchronizing timeouts of bubbles

-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:23:14 +0200

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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