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transmission segfaults after ubuntu upgrade

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:33 am
by drdumbo
Hi,

Yesterday I upgraded my ubuntu 12.04 (LTS "Precise") system through the package manager. Before the upgrade transmission-gtk was working fine. After the upgrade, it crashed with a segfault:

[ 70.276180] transmission-gt[2164]: segfault at 9373e04 ip b6ac19de sp b3dfede0 error 6 in libc-2.15.so[b6a4a000+1a3000]

I then did the following to get the most up-to-date transmission:
'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'

This gave me: transmission-gtk 2.72 (13582)

I then reran transmission, but it again did a segfault:

[ 861.674329] transmission-gt[3364]: segfault at 9ec2acc ip b6ade9de sp b3dfede0 error 6 in libc-2.15.so[b6a67000+1a3000]

on investigating a bit more, it seems to be a malloc() problem while trying to open a file.

any ideas?

cheers