I've dug into this issue to try to get a better backtrace from the crash. In the process I've determined that this is not a bug in qtwebkit per se. The crash happens before any calls are made into the qtwebkit library - the mere act of loading the nvidia libGL and calling its initializers is enough to trigger the crash. So the only relevant difference between qtwebkit 2.2.1 and 2.3.0 is that 2.3.0 is linked against libGL.
It is exceedingly unlikely that anything in skype needs to /use/ the GL- based functionality of QtWebkit. Consequently, the proposed workaround to bypass the nvidia libGL by preloading the mesa libGL should be a safe and effective solution. ** Package changed: qtwebkit-source (Ubuntu Raring) => nvidia-graphics- drivers-304 (Ubuntu Raring) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1155327 Title: skype crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc@plt() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1155327/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
