environment corrupt; missing value for QT_IM_MO [Was: [VirtualBox 4.3.26] Fail with assertion VERR_INVALID_POINTER (-6) - Invalid memory pointer.]

Very weird, this suddenly started happening to me but with libreoffice.  I can
not correlate the problem with any actions /  events.

stderr:
soffice.bin: environment corrupt; missing value for QT_IM_MO

gdb:
Core was generated by `soffice.bin'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0  thr_kill () at thr_kill.S:3
3       RSYSCALL(thr_kill)
[Current thread is 2 (Thread 816615000 (LWP 102134))]
(gdb) bt
#0  thr_kill () at thr_kill.S:3
#1  0x0000000800dc5ddb in __raise (s=6) at /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/raise.c:52
#2  0x0000000800dc5d49 in abort () at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c:65
#3  0x0000000805231318 in tools::extendApplicationEnvironment() () from
/usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libtllo.so

Smells like a possible bug in libc...

On 27/03/2015 07:08, Yuri wrote:
> After ports update today, now both VirtualBox and VBoxManage fail right away
> with this message.
> This happens also without module vboxdrv.ko loaded.
> I rebuilt whole dependency tree of virtualbox-ose-4.3.26. but still have the
> same problem.
> 
> Yuri
> 
> 
> --- message ---
> $ VirtualBox
> VirtualBox: environment corrupt; missing value for QT_IM_MO
> 
> !!Assertion Failed!!
> Expression: RT_SUCCESS_NP(vrc)
> Location  :
> /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.3.26/src/VBox/Main/glue/initterm.cpp(466)
> nsresult com::Initialize(bool)
> VERR_INVALID_POINTER (-6) - Invalid memory pointer.
> Trace/BPT trap
> [yuri_at_yuri ~/proj/app-llvm-update/libwikiparser/web-demo]$ VBoxManage list vms
> VBoxManage: environment corrupt; missing value for QT_IM_MO
> 
> !!Assertion Failed!!
> Expression: RT_SUCCESS_NP(vrc)
> Location  :
> /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.3.26/src/VBox/Main/glue/initterm.cpp(466)
> nsresult com::Initialize(bool)
> VERR_INVALID_POINTER (-6) - Invalid memory pointer.
> Trace/BPT trap

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Andriy Gapon