Bug#496190: gnome-panel: Memory corruption

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.20.3-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Hi,

While I do startx, I get the following message:

*** glibc detected *** gnome-panel: free(): invalid pointer: 
0x0000000001c14800 ***

X starts but gnome doesn't work here. It prevents from running the 
desktop, so of using gnome in general.

memtest86+ didn't see any memory problem of the ram and the motherboard 
is recent: an ASRock ALiveNF6P-VSTA.

I stay available for more tetailed tests, I don't know what debug 
commands use. 

Sincerely,

JP

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                2.22.3-1      The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.22.2.1-1  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data         2.22.3-1      Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                2.22.2-3      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data           2.20.3-5      common files for the GNOME Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.22.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.7-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-6       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.76-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7               2.22.3-1      Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-9        2.22.3-1      Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8      2.22.3-1      GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.22.3-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.22.2-3      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-4    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.11-3     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.20.3-5      library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.5-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck22                  2.22.3-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.4-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.3-3     X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                   0.3           freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                      0.11.5-1   easy GNOME menu editing tool
ii  evolution-data-server         2.22.3-1   evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets                 2.22.3-2   Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.22.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.22.3-1   The GNOME 2 Session Manager

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  gnome-system-tools       2.22.0-2        Cross-platform configuration utili
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.22.3-2        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2 2.22.1-1        GNOME user's guide
ii  nautilus                 2.20.0-6        file manager and graphical shell f
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulat 235-1           X terminal emulator
ii  yelp                     2.22.1-3+lenny2 Help browser for GNOME 2

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