Just happened to me for the 1st time... its something new cause I have lots of Pidgin crash, but this just happened today.
$ pidgin *** glibc detected *** pidgin: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000008365480 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0x7fb174a57d48] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x7fb174a5a306] /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0x7fb175bbca1c] /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0x7fb175bbcc61] /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0x7fb175bbcd72] pidgin[0x46dfc5] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x23b)[0x7fb17522d20b] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x7fb1752309cd] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1cd)[0x7fb175230efd] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xa7)[0x7fb1768dd167] pidgin(main+0xb6b)[0x48aed3] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7fb1749fe5a6] pidgin[0x430879] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-004ee000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 295885 /usr/bin/pidgin 006ed000-006ee000 r--p 000ed000 08:01 295885 /usr/bin/pidgin 006ee000-006f3000 rw-p 000ee000 08:01 295885 /usr/bin/pidgin 006f3000-006f4000 rw-p 006f3000 00:00 0 008d5000-102ad000 rw-p 008d5000 00:00 0 [heap] 7fb152d4e000-7fb152d9c000 r--p 00000000 08:01 569075 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf 7fb152d9c000-7fb152dbd000 r--p 00000000 08:01 253090 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf 7fb152dbd000-7fb153513000 r--p 00000000 08:01 89907 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/sazanami/sazanami-gothic.ttf 7fb153849000-7fb153f9f000 r--p 00000000 08:01 89907 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/sazanami/sazanami-gothic.ttf 7fb153f9f000-7fb153fa1000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 330594 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-wbmp.so 7fb153fa1000-7fb1541a0000 ---p 00002000 08:01 330594 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-wbmp.so 7fb1541a0000-7fb1541a1000 r--p 00001000 08:01 330594 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-wbmp.so 7fb1541a1000-7fb1541a2000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 330594 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-wbmp.so 7fb1541a2000-7fb1541a8000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 330583 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-gif.so 7fb1541a8000-7fb1543a7000 ---p 00006000 08:01 330583 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-gif.so 7fb1543a7000-7fb1543a8000 r--p 00005000 08:01 330583 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-gif.so 7fb1543a8000-7fb1543a9000 rw-p 00006000 08:01 330583 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-gif.so 7fb1543a9000-7fb154426000 r--p 00000000 08:01 569070 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf 7fb154426000-7fb1544a3000 r--p 00000000 08:01 569069 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf 7fb1547b9000-7fb1547ba000 rw-p 7fb1547b9000 00:00 0 7fb1548cd000-7fb154e2c000 rw-p 7fb1548cd000 00:00 0 7fb154e2d000-7fb154f3f000 rw-p 7fb154e2d000 00:00 0 7fb155052000-7fb155055000 rw-p 7fb155052000 00:00 0 7fb155055000-7fb1550de000 r--p 00000000 08:01 569056 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf 7fb1550de000-7fb155167000 r--p 00000000 08:01 569056 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf 7fb155167000-7fb15538d000 rw-p 7fb155167000 00:00 0 7fb1554a0000-7fb1554a1000 rw-p 7fb1554a0000 00:00 0 7fb1554c6000-7fb1554c9000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 223505 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so 7fb1554c9000-7fb1556c8000 ---p 00003000 08:01 223505 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so 7fb1556c8000-7fb1556c9000 r--p 00002000 08:01 223505 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so 7fb1556c9000-7fb1556ca000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 223505 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so 7fb1556ca000-7fb1556cc000 rw-p 7fb1556ca000 00:00 0 7fb1557df000-7fb15583f000 rw-s 00000000 00:09 3178535 /SYSV00000000 (deleted) 7fb15583f000-7fb156629000 rw-p 7fb15583f000 00:00 0 7fb156629000-7fb156689000 rw-s 00000000 00:Aborted (core dumped) -- pidgin crashes with glibc error "double free or corruption" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184796 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs