Bug 88286 – When running vuescan I get "glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x5556f1a"

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hal Engel 2005-04-07 12:17:48 UTC]

After installing vuescan from 32 bit binaries when I run it I get the following:

bash-2.05b$ ./vuescan
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x5556f1ac ***
Aborted

I contacted the author of the software and he thinks it is a glibc problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and unpack the vuescan tarball
2. Install 32 versions of libubs and libregmgr
3. try to run Vuescan with ./vuescan

Actual Results:  
bash-2.05b$ ./vuescan
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x5556f1ac ***
Aborted

Expected Results:  
Vuescan should run.

bash-2.05b# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 28 2005, 23:05:42)]
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
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 acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvr esd
fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2
imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jp2 jpeg junit kde lzw lzw-tiff mad matrox
motif mp3 nas ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl pic png ppds python
qt readlinescanner sdl ssl tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts usbuserlocales wxwindows xinerama xml2 xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Radek Podgorny 2005-04-07 13:21:17 UTC]

This is not a glibc problem. It's a bug in vuescan, glibc just refused to continue when it detected it... You can compile glibc with this check disabled...

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-04-07 16:33:41 UTC]

Indeed.  Not a glibc problem and not a problem with a supported package as far as I can tell.

[Comment 3 Hal Engel 2005-04-07 22:25:51 UTC]

OK I found some more info on this error message.  The behavior of glibc can be controlled with the emvironment variable MALLOC_CHECK_ When set to 0 it disables the checking.  When I do that vuescan segfualts.  When I set it to 1glibc give a beter error message and say there is an invalid pointer.  So this is a problem with vuescan.  Thanks for you help.