Summary says it all, really! Also happens in 1.4.3.1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a Pubmed search or open a database with some records 2. Click+drag a record Actual Results: GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:136: failed to allocate 3832020992 bytes aborting... Trace/breakpoint trap Expected Results: Just a simple click+drag. Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r1-radeon i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r1-radeon-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.86GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:15:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.6.1-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch prelink protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/Gentoo " LC_ALL="en_AU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_AU en_AU.UTF-8 en_GB en_GB.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://136.186.1.76/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dirac djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode expat fam ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java java6 javascript jpeg kde kqemu laptop latex ldap libnotify libsamplerate lirc lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap musepack ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sharedmem sndfile spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wavpack wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_AU en_AU.UTF-8 en_GB en_GB.UTF-8" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS I tried with both gtk-unicode 2.6 and 2.8, and gtk2-ansi-2.6 (via eselect wxwidgets).
Please add some backtrace of the crash. Have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml if you don't know how to receive a backtrace.
Thanks, but bibus is a Python program... what's the equivalent?
Fixed with upgrade to python-2.6.2.