Bug#909015: abiword: Crashes on startup with GLib-ERROR

[Joachim H. Kaiser]

Package: abiword
Version: 3.0.2-2+deb9u2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

on startup, my freshly installed abiword crashes with a GLib-ERROR:

   (abiword:4517): GLib-ERROR **:
   /build/glib2.0-YYXhFA/glib2.0-2.50.3/./glib/gmem.c:100: failed to allocate
   4276615588 bytes
   Trace/breakpoint trap

Regards.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-0.bpo.3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages abiword depends on:
ii  abiword-common  3.0.2-2+deb9u2
ii  gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.3
ii  libabiword-3.0  3.0.2-2+deb9u2
ii  libc6   2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libdbus-1-3 1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-20.108-2
ii  libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libgcrypt20 1.7.6-2+deb9u3
ii  libglib2.0-02.50.3-2
ii  libgnutls30 3.5.8-5+deb9u3
ii  libgoffice-0.10-10  0.10.32-1.1
ii  libgsf-1-1141.14.41-1
ii  libgtk-3-0  3.22.11-1
pn  libjpeg62-turbo 
ii  libloudmouth1-0 1.5.3-2
ii  libots0 0.5.0-2.3
ii  libpng16-16 1.6.28-1
ii  librdf0 1.0.17-1.1
ii  libreadline77.0-3
ii  librevenge-0.0-00.0.4-6
ii  libsoup2.4-12.56.0-2+deb9u2
ii  libstdc++6  6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libtelepathy-glib0  0.24.1-1.1
ii  libtidy51:5.2.0-2
ii  libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-10.6
ii  libwpd-0.10-10  0.10.1-5+deb9u1
ii  libwpg-0.3-30.3.1-3
ii  libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages abiword recommends:
ii  abiword-plugin-grammar  3.0.2-2+deb9u2
ii  aspell-de [aspell-dictionary]   20161207-1
ii  aspell-de-1901 [aspell-dictionary]  1:2-31
ii  aspell-en [aspell-dictionary]   2016.11.20-0-0.1
ii  aspell-it [aspell-dictionary]   2.4-20070901-0-2.1
ii  fonts-liberation1:1.07.4-2
ii  poppler-utils   0.48.0-2+deb9u2

abiword suggests no packages.

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Bug#909015: abiword: Crashes on startup with GLib-ERROR (Bug #909015)

[Bernhard Übelacker]

Hallo Herr Kaiser,
I just tried to reproduce the issue while not being the maintainer.
But it started up properly in a Debian Stretch i386 VM.

For some reason it looks like it tries to allocate nearly 4GB of memory.

Was this the complete output of the abiword start attempt?
If there is some more output about missing *_dri.so files
then a google search points to a missing libgl1-mesa-dri package.

If this is the only output, does this also happen when you login
with a different user with a fresh home directory?

The maintainer will probably need some more information e.g.
which graphics card is in the system or which desktop environment you use.

When additional packages gdb and libglib2.0-0-dbg would be installed,
following command would print the stack on the first allocation above 95MB:
gdb -q -ex "b main" -ex run -ex "b g_malloc if n_bytes > 1" -ex cont 
-ex bt -ex detach -ex quit --args abiword

(This could take quite some time.)

Kind regards,
Bernhard