modem-manager-gui won´t start any more

Rosika · 05-20-2019, 10:22 AM

Hi altogether,

All of a sudden modem-manager-gui doesn´t open up any more. When trying to get it running from the command-line I get the following error-message:

Code:

rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e ~> modem-manager-gui 
Connection manager: Network Manager >= 0.9.0
Modem manager: Modem Manager >= 0.7.0
double free or corruption (out)
fish: 'modem-manager-gui' durch Signal SIGABRT (Abbruch) beendet
rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e ~> echo $status 
134

It´s really odd as it used to work just fine - until now.

Does anyone have a clue as to what´s going on?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Greetings
Rosika

P.S.: my system: Lubuntu 18.04 LTS, 64 bit

ondoho · 05-21-2019, 02:03 PM

fish???
are you consciously using the fish shell?

anyhow, this seems to be the relevant bit:

Code:

Connection manager: Network Manager >= 0.9.0
Modem manager: Modem Manager >= 0.7.0
double free or corruption (out)

now, i've never seen "double free or corruption (out)" before...
is there a version mismatch between nm and mm?
is your system fully updated

Code:

apt update
apt upgrade

???

Rosika · 05-22-2019, 06:12 AM

Hi ondoho,

thank you for your response.

As far as fish-shell is concerned: Yes, I use it deliberately. For me the whole concept if it makes really sense. I like it very much.
BTW: When using bash I get the same results as far as my problem is concerened.

Quote:

now, i've never seen "double free or corruption (out)" before...

Me neither.

Quote:

is there a version mismatch between nm and mm?

Well, I was also thinking along those lines......

Quote:

is your system fully updated

Yes, by all means.

Anyhow, in the meantime I contacted Till Kamppeter, the maintainer of ModemManager, via e-mail and asked him about possible incompatibilities between ModemManager and modem-manager-gui.

Background:

Quote:

As part of regular updates I received the latest version of
*ModemManager* 1.10.0-1~ubuntu18.04.2 on 2019-05-17.

This was exactly the point in time when *modem-manager-gui* (v.
0.0.19.1-1) stopped working. The GUI-interface won´t open anymore and
I get the error-message:
"double free or corruption (out)".

My question is: Is it possible that the new version of *ModemManager*
could be responsible for this? Might there be any incompatibilities?

He answered me:

Quote:

This is possible. We need to investigate this.

Please post a bug report on modem-manager for that. Thanks/

So that might be it.

I´d gladly post a bug report but have no idea what website is suitable for that.

Cheers
Rosika

ondoho · 05-22-2019, 11:30 PM

^ i'm sure you'll figure it out.
please don't be intimidated by the process.

meanwhile, i literally put that error message in a search engine - the first 3 results look interesting at least, if not helpful.

Rosika · 05-24-2019, 06:21 AM

Hi ondoho,

thanks for the links. That´s really kind of you. I´ll look them up and try to investigate further.

As far as the bug-report is concerned it seems like the URL https://linuxonly.ru/forum/modem-manager-gui/# is the one to go.
Yet in order to post there it seems I´ll have to create an account first......

Greetings.
Rosika