Bug#728757: Apparently it is a problem I caused myself
I have just tried making a fresh wheezy installl in a VM, and it works fine there. So it must be something I have messed up myself. Sorry for the noise.
Bug#728757: valgrind: Valgrind won't start, complains about being unable to set up function redirection
Package: valgrind Version: 1:3.7.0-6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, When I try to run Valgrind it refuses to run, and exits with an error message about being unable to redirect a function. The following shows how to reproduce it: > cat foo.c int main() {