On 3/21/06, David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 21, 2006 at 14:42, Gustavo Franco praised the llamas by saying: > > Well, if you're running your favourite glib application and it seems > > to be broken with the output like: > > (...) > > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08ced388 *** > > > > It's probably due to the new glib (GSlice) memory allocator[0], but > > it's an application bug. Please first check if it's really glib > > related[1]. > > > > There's a workaround that is run the application as follows: > > $ G_SLICE=always-malloc application > > > > FYI, evolution seems to be affected and it was already fixed upstream. > > Sebastian Bacher has a patch to galculator too. If you hit this bug in > > other random application, please open a bug against the application > > and feel free to cc: me. I'll try keep track of these bugs with > > usertags. > > I appear to have a bug filed today against irssi with a similar error. > Bug number is 358172. > > > > [0] = http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/en/rndevelopers.html > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Memory-Slices.html > > > > [1] = ldd `which application` | grep libglib > >
Right, i just commented in that bug and usertagged the others that i found[0]. If you see any other related bug, please tell me. I commented on the evo' related bug and AFAIK seb128 already has a patch that fixes the galculator one. [0] = http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=gslice Thanks, -- stratus
