Bugzilla Bug 107089

After a random number of fortune commands (never more than 10), I get the
following error:
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0000000000540530 ***

It even happens through wanda the fish (wanda gets cut off mid sentence)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. fortune
2. repeat until message (crash)
3.




Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 142
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aac alsa apache2 audiofile avi bdf berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bmp
bonobo browserplugin bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread
eds emboss encode esd evo fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg lcms
libwww lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mbox mime mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mp3
mpeg mplayer msn nas ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis
openal opengl oscar pam pcre pda pdflib perl php plotutils png ppds python qt
quicktime readline samba sdl sndfile snmp soap sockets sox speex spell ssl tcltk
tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales v4l
videos vorbis wifi wxwindows xine xml xml2 xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS

yeah i can confirm that ... just never looked into it

Never looked into it??!??  But fortune-mod is the most important app on any
Linux system!

Whole companies could collapse if their fortune is cut off!

I think all other bug work should stop until this is solved!!!! ;)

ok, this is actually a bug in the recode library

update to recode-3.6-r2 and that should fix this issue for you

*** Bug 112772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 127256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 128388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***