Looks like a bug in libusb, with anecdotal evidence from Sean above and
comments from the developer (on linked Redhat bugzilla bug also
mentioning this)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580570
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 427805 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427805
This actually looks like a dupe of #427805
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upowerd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 427805 ***
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usb_find_devices() crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
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Replacing libusb-0.1-4 with a hand-built version of libusb-compat
appears to solve this problem for me.
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Here is the valgrind log. It doesn't have debug symbols for upowerd
though due to there not being a version available in the repo with them.
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