free(): invalid pointer after PyObject_Call

[kpinel]

It started about a month ago where Variety would start fine and work for several hours. As of Friday or Saturday, I get the following error when running it from a terminal free(): invalid pointer Aborted Googling around points it to a Python error but, as little has changed in the app for some time, I'd put it down to recent Python updates. Rebooting doesn't seem to fix the issue. Have also uninstalled and re-installed Variety. Slideshow appears to work fine though

[donteiser]

Yes, it happens every day or so, exactly the same way on my system. Linux Mint Mate v19 (kernel 4.15.0-36-generic). Variety v0.7.0

[donteiser]

I should add these entries from syslog:

Oct 4 04:05:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: XMP Toolkit error 101: Schema namespace URI and prefix mismatch Oct 4 04:05:33 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Failed to decode XMP metadata. Oct 4 05:35:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: XMP Toolkit error 101: Schema namespace URI and prefix mismatch Oct 4 05:35:33 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Failed to decode XMP metadata. Oct 4 09:05:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: XMP Toolkit error 101: Schema namespace URI and prefix mismatch Oct 4 09:05:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Failed to decode XMP metadata. Oct 4 10:05:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Directory OlympusCs, entry 0x0101: Strip 0 is outside of the data area; ignored. Oct 4 10:05:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Invalid JPEG preview image. Oct 4 10:05:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Directory OlympusCs, entry 0x0101: Strip 0 is outside of the data area; ignored. Oct 4 10:05:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: message repeated 2 times: [ Directory OlympusCs, entry 0x0101: Strip 0 is outside of the data area; ignored.] ... Oct 4 11:45:39 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: XMP Toolkit error 201: XML parsing failure Oct 4 11:45:39 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Failed to decode XMP metadata. Oct 4 17:35:32 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: XMP Toolkit error 101: Schema namespace URI and prefix mismatch Oct 4 17:35:33 don-GatewayDX4870 variety[3959]: Failed to decode XMP metadata.

[tim-e-de-vries]

Getting the same error. Seems to have started around recent Variety update 0.7.0~git201809151602.8eff230~ppa768~ubuntu16.04.1

Command line execution yields the following error: Error in `/usr/bin/python3': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001f9f590 ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x777e5)[0x7fc81fc787e5] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x8037a)[0x7fc81fc8137a] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4c)[0x7fc81fc8553c] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x1d479)[0x7fc81cafd479] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x2f881)[0x7fc81bcbe881] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x2bd06)[0x7fc81bcbad06] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x2d3e8)[0x7fc81bcbc3e8] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x21385)[0x7fc81bcb0385] /usr/bin/python3(PyObject_Call+0x47)[0x5c1797] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x4ec6)[0x53bba6] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x13b)[0x540f9b] /usr/bin/python3[0x4ebd23] /usr/bin/python3(PyObject_Call+0x47)[0x5c1797] /usr/bin/python3[0x4fb9ce] /usr/bin/python3(PyObject_Call+0x47)[0x5c1797] /usr/bin/python3[0x584716] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0xc36)[0x537916] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x4b04)[0x53b7e4] /usr/bin/python3[0x5406df] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x50b2)[0x53bd92] /usr/bin/python3[0x5406df] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x54f0)[0x53c1d0] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x4b04)[0x53b7e4] /usr/bin/python3[0x540199] /usr/bin/python3(PyEval_EvalCode+0x1f)[0x540e4f] /usr/bin/python3[0x60c272] /usr/bin/python3(PyRun_FileExFlags+0x9a)[0x60e71a] /usr/bin/python3(PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags+0x1bc)[0x60ef0c] /usr/bin/python3(Py_Main+0x456)[0x63fb26] /usr/bin/python3(main+0xe1)[0x4cfeb1]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7fc81fc21830]
/usr/bin/python3(_start+0x29)[0x5d6049]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-007a9000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 524301 /usr/bin/python3.5
009a9000-009ab000 r--p 003a9000 08:02 524301 /usr/bin/python3.5
009ab000-00a42000 rw-p 003ab000 08:02 524301 /usr/bin/python3.5
00a42000-00a73000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
01bca000-026e0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]

[MrEMan]

I have had the same issue. Just posting the error from console.

trevor@Bunty:~$ variety ERROR: 2018-11-02 19:12:13,175: _generate_pencil_tile() 'Could not generate pencil_tile.png' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 302, in _generate_pencil_tile "-motion-blur 0x20+135 -charcoal 2 -resize 50%% %s" % pipes.quote(pencil_tile_filename.encode('utf8'))) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/shlex.py", line 314, in quote if _find_unsafe(s) is None: TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object WARNING: 2018-11-02 19:12:13,308: load_history() 'Could not load history file, continuing without it, no worries' Gtk-Message: 19:12:13.409: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. ERROR: 2018-11-02 19:12:13,410: image_ok() 'Error in image_ok for file /home/trevor/.config/variety/Downloaded/nasa_apod/marsHirise_ESP_035143_1325.jpg' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 1482, in image_ok i = PILImage.open(img) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 2590, in open % (filename if filename else fp)) OSError: cannot identify image file '/home/trevor/.config/variety/Downloaded/nasa_apod/marsHirise_ESP_035143_1325.jpg' free(): invalid pointer Aborted (core dumped)<

Regards

[eoli3n]

same here, but just

~
❯ variety
free(): invalid pointer

[nikolov-tmw]

Another clue that might help someone figure this out is that when I created a new user on my system, Variety works when I'm logged-in with that user. So it must be something user-specific, but I'm not familiar enough with Python to figure out what the problem is :slightly_frowning_face:

[nikolov-tmw]

For anyone watching this issue, I've finally had enough of this and decided to poke around to see if I can figure this one out. And I managed to get Variety up and running again!

TL;DR: try renaming the folder ~/.config/variety/ to something else and then starting Variety - it might just work.

I started by renaming my whole ~/.config folder(I did it with as little stuff running as possible, but I don't recommend it :slightly_smiling_face: ). Then started Variety - and it worked!

Next, I restored my ~/.config folder and renamed the whole ~/.config/variety/ folder - that also allowed Variety to work(by the way, if you're trying this, make sure you fully kill the Variety process between attempts, because running variety with a running instance will just show you the settings screen, even if it wouldn't do a clean start).

Next I tried renaming/moving each of the files within ~/.config/variety/ and checking to see if Variety will run. The one file that seemed to fix the issue for whatever reason was ~/.config/variety/pencil_tile.png - I did get an error message about that file not being able to be generated(when I ran variety from the terminal). I moved the file back in it's place and that time Variety started just fine :man_shrugging: . After killing the Variety process and starting it up again multiple times, as well as doing a full reboot Variety seems to be working ok for now.

If you don't want to play around and you're not too worried about your config, you can probably simply rename the whole ~/.config/variety/ folder and save yourself the hassle of trying things blindly.

Hope this helps :slightly_smiling_face:

[MrEMan]

This is going to sound weird, but I had also given up on this and tried your suggestion with partial success.

In the end I manually changed my wallpaper to something random. The next time I started my computer Variety started and has been working ever since. After months of fails this may have been a coincidence but who knows :)

Regards

[nikolov-tmw]

Here's one more clue as this kept happening to me randomly. You can look at the log file( ~/.config/variety/variety.log ). One of the last lines should mention the path to downloaded file that is currently being used as a wallpaper. Deleting that last file has fixed the issue for me every time so far.

Unfortunately I haven't saved a copy of any of those images, but next time this happens I'll see if I can upload it here or somewhere else for someone to look into - I'd assume there's some weird edge case with some images and it causes a fatal error.

[jlu5]

@nikolov-tmw Posting a problematic image would be very helpful! Maybe one of the underlying libraries we're using don't handle corrupt images correctly and cause a crash.

[nikolov-tmw]

@jlu5 Ok, so I just had this happen again. Here are the last few lines of ~/.config/variety/variety.log:

INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: log_options() 'use_landscape_enabled = True'
INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: reload_config() 'No need to clear prepared queue'
INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: load_last_change_time() 'Change interval < 6 hours, ignore persisted last_change_time, wait initially the whole interval: 300'
INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: update_indicator() 'Setting file info to: /home/user/.config/variety/Downloaded/Desktoppr/200717040711-1867.jpg'

This lead me to try and remove the image 200717040711-1867.jpg. After I did so, problem was solved. This time I copied the image and uploaded it as-is(through ssh). You can find it here: https://nidus.paiyakdev.com/screens/200717040711-1867.jpg

Let me know if you're able to reproduce the problem with that image and if not, I can try and look further into it on my end.

[jlu5]

I downloaded the image and was able to set it as wallpaper without any issues. I'll leave it in my enabled sources and see if anything breaks later.

[superjax]

I saw similar behavior as @nikolov-tmw,

I was getting the same issue, but everything worked after I removed ./config/variety/Downloaded/Desktoppr/20110430_634398018831122866.jpg

[jlu5]

OH, perhaps if you still have a copy of the image, upload it somewhere?

[superjax]

Unfortunately, I didn't think of that before I rm'd it.

However, I think this is the Desktoppr link https://www.desktoppr.co/wallpapers/240286

[jlu5]

Hi everyone,

What if you run Variety as python3 -q -X faulthandler /usr/bin/variety in a terminal? This should print the last bits of Python code that are executed before Python crashes, which might narrow down which library calls are causing a crash.

[the-djdj]

Had this issue, used @nikolov-tmw's solution, it all worked.

@jlu5 Ok, so I just had this happen again. Here are the last few lines of ~/.config/variety/variety.log:

INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: log_options() 'use_landscape_enabled = True'
INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: reload_config() 'No need to clear prepared queue'
INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: load_last_change_time() 'Change interval < 6 hours, ignore persisted last_change_time, wait initially the whole interval: 300'
INFO: 2019-05-16 04:22:58,234: update_indicator() 'Setting file info to: /home/user/.config/variety/Downloaded/Desktoppr/200717040711-1867.jpg'

This lead me to try and remove the image 200717040711-1867.jpg. After I did so, problem was solved. This time I copied the image and uploaded it as-is(through ssh). You can find it here: https://nidus.paiyakdev.com/screens/200717040711-1867.jpg

Let me know if you're able to reproduce the problem with that image and if not, I can try and look further into it on my end.

[peterlevi]

If this still reproduces reliably for anyone - when it happens, please zip your whole ~/.config/variety folder (without the Downloaded, Fetched and Favorites subfolders), along with the image file of the current wallpaper (you can manually call ~/.config/variety/scripts/get_wallpaper to check which one it is) and attach them here. Posted logs so far do not reveal much info, we need to reproduce the crash locally.

[LaurentOngaro]

Hi, same issue for me

I've tried to remove and reinstall variety . SAME issue I've tried to delete the config folder . SAME issue I've tried to copy then config folder from an older install . SAME issue

I've got an invalid pointer error when starting variety in a terminal. I've SOLVED the issue by renaming the last loaded wallpaper image.

For that, I've ran

variety -v

to get the last loaded image filename. In my case the interesting line was at the end of the log :

INFO: 2019-12-22 14:17:12,065: update_indicator() 'Setting file info to: /home/laurent/Images/Wallpaper/Beautiful Mix HD Wallpapers/Googaback 161 pack (242).jpg'

then I've executed the following command: mv "/home/laurent/Images/Wallpaper/Beautiful Mix HD Wallpapers/Googaback 161 pack (242).jpg" "/home/laurent/Images/Wallpaper/Beautiful Mix HD Wallpapers/Googaback 161 pack.jpg"

and start variety again... and it works !!

[shanec42]

Ok, it's reliably failing for me. version: 0.8.2~git202001090643.15fcc8c~ppa881~ubuntu16.04.1 python3 version: 3.5.1-3

TBZ file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NMH0t6k-nG7PRi4Njedv8JIyETiLXpPb $: ~/.config/variety/scripts/get_wallpaper 'file:///home//.config/variety/wallpaper/wallpaper-clock-d296a829c8f7dcaf1e736102ee56f2f2.jpg'

The current image is included in the tbz file.

$: python3 -q -X faulthandler /usr/bin/variety *** Error inpython3': free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f3a78005610 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x777e5)[0x7f3a8dbaa7e5] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x8037a)[0x7f3a8dbb337a] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4c)[0x7f3a8dbb753c] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x1d479)[0x7f3a8aeb6479] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x2f881)[0x7f3a8a077881] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x2bd06)[0x7f3a8a073d06] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x2d3e8)[0x7f3a8a0753e8] /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so(+0x21385)[0x7f3a8a069385] python3(PyObject_Call+0x47)[0x5c3bd7] python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x4f2f)[0x5354af] python3(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x13b)[0x53a81b] python3[0x4e3423] python3(PyObject_Call+0x47)[0x5c3bd7] python3[0x4f08be] python3(PyObject_Call+0x47)[0x5c3bd7] python3[0x57f216] python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0xc36)[0x5311b6] python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x4b64)[0x5350e4] python3[0x539f5f] python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x5122)[0x5356a2] python3[0x539f5f] python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x5572)[0x535af2] python3[0x539f5f] python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x5572)[0x535af2] python3(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x4b64)[0x5350e4] python3[0x539a13] python3(PyEval_EvalCode+0x1f)[0x53a6cf] python3[0x6292c2] python3(PyRun_FileExFlags+0x9a)[0x62b76a] python3(PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags+0x1bc)[0x62bf5c] python3(Py_Main+0x456)[0x63d506] python3(main+0xe1)[0x4cfd11] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7f3a8db53830] python3(_start+0x29)[0x5d36e9] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-007a7000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 8782640 /usr/bin/python3.5 009a6000-009a8000 r--p 003a6000 fd:00 8782640 /usr/bin/python3.5 009a8000-00a3f000 rw-p 003a8000 fd:00 8782640 /usr/bin/python3.5 00a3f000-00a70000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 02220000-02b47000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f3a58000000-7f3a58021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a58021000-7f3a5c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a60000000-7f3a60045000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a60045000-7f3a64000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a64000000-7f3a64021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a64021000-7f3a68000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a68000000-7f3a68021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a68021000-7f3a6c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f3a6c246000-7f3a6c24b000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 10879528 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_dns-2.23.so 7f3a6c24b000-7f3a6c44b000 ---p 00005000 fd:00 10879528 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_dns-2.23.so 7f3a6c44b000-7f3a6c44c000 r--p 00005000 fd:00 10879528 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_dns-2.23.so 7f3a6c44c000-7f3a6c44d000 rw-p 00006000 fd:00 10879528 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_dns-2.23.so 7f3a6c44d000-7f3a6c44f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 10883592 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2 7f3a6c44f000-7f3a6c64e000 ---p 00002000 fd:00 10883592 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2 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Thread 0x00007f3a6d062700 (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 293 in wait File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 549 in wait File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/QuotesEngine.py", line 182 in regular_change_thread File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 862 in run File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 914 in _bootstrap_inner File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 882 in _bootstrap

Thread 0x00007f3a6d863700 (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3.5/socket.py", line 732 in getaddrinfo File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 67 in create_connection File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 137 in _new_conn File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 217 in connect File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787 in _validate_conn File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 346 in _make_request File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 560 in urlopen File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 376 in send File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 588 in send File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 480 in request File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 53 in request File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/Util.py", line 620 in request File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/Util.py", line 635 in fetch File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/Util.py", line 647 in html_soup File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/plugins/builtin/quotes/GoodreadsSource.py", line 167 in get_for_keyword File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/plugins/builtin/quotes/GoodreadsSource.py", line 138 in get_random File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/QuotesEngine.py", line 285 in get_one_quote File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/QuotesEngine.py", line 207 in prepare_thread File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 862 in run File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 914 in _bootstrap_inner File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 882 in _bootstrap

Thread 0x00007f3a6e064700 (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 988 in clock_thread_method File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 862 in run File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 914 in _bootstrap_inner File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 882 in _bootstrap

Current thread 0x00007f3a8e313700 (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/Util.py", line 177 in getitem File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/Util.py", line 514 in read_metadata File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 756 in update_indicator File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 549 in reload_config File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 194 in start File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/variety/init.py", line 239 in main File "/usr/bin/variety", line 66 in Aborted (core dumped) `

I hope all of this helps. Thanks for a great package!

[karlredman]

This is an old problem that popped up a couple years ago. I don't have the issue reference but the problem happens when variety can't properly read the current wallpaper reference in .config/variety/wallpaper/wallpaper.jpg.txt

For me, simply removing the offending file named in wallpaper.jpg.txt and removing wallpaper.jpg.txt altogether is enough for variety to start up like normal -with a few errors from the command line at first.

[hxzhao527]

$ variety --version
variety 0.8.10