Thanks for following up.
We do seem to have some problems in the X stack; this is far from the
only one of these libc/malloc bug reports we've gotten. But I'm glad to
hear that at least in this case it's gone for you.
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
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This one appears to be failing in this chunk of code:
static Bool
CreateCallbackList(CallbackListPtr *pcbl)
{
...
if (!pcbl) return FALSE;
cbl = malloc(sizeof(CallbackListRec)); /* CRASH */
if (!cbl) return FALSE;
...
The error is:
#8 0x7fcb64f9ba2e in
I'm truly sorry about this bug report. I had upgrade to precise a few
days ago, but the upgrade process crashed because I mistakenly tried to
cleanup the system /var partition because it was running out of disk
space. I had to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade -f' to get the install to
finish, but
slangasek I think you have heap corruption, and valgrind's the best
tool for finding that
@José, does this occur every time the display manager starts? Would
you be willing to try running X in valgrind to help isolate the memory
failure?
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I just re-installed all the libc6 packages and the bug is gone. As I
said, I think what happened to my system during the upgrade process
might have caused this. When I saw your comment about the bug being
deeper than X I decided to re-install the libc6 packages and the bug is
now gone. I'm
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