[Bug 60851] shares-admin crashes on launch

[Robert Persson]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

In dapper shares-admin crashes on launch. The error messages vary, but
usually a window appears with a spinning wheel and the contents greyed
out. On one occasion, while trying to launch shares-admin as non-root, a
password dialogue appeared, but after I entered the password it crashed
anyway.

This is what happened as I tried to launch shares-admin several times as
non-root, via sudo and as root:

robert at florence:~$ shares-admin
robert at florence:~$ shares-admin
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x10381ad0 ***
Aborted
robert at florence:~$ sudo shares-admin
Password:
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x102e0078 ***
Aborted
robert at florence:~$ su
Password:
root at florence:/home/robert# shares-admin
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x102afe18 ***
Aborted
root at florence:/home/robert# shares-admin
Segmentation fault
root at florence:/home/robert# exit
exit
robert at florence:~$ shares-admin
Segmentation fault
robert at florence:~$ sudo shares-admin
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x102afe18 ***
Aborted
robert at florence:~$


I then tried to launch a different build of the program on another machine with a gentoo installation (compiled with gcc-4.11 or something) and I got yet another set of errors, namely:

*** glibc detected *** shares-admin: double free or corruption
(fasttop): 0x0823e050 ***

and

*** glibc detected *** shares-admin: double free or corruption
(fasttop): 0x0823e540 ***

(this last error repeated twice).

** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
     Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
         Status: Needs Info

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shares-admin crashes on launch
https://launchpad.net/bugs/60851