gaim mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08468b60 *** Aborted --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- strace gaim open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY) = 30 writev(30, [{"*** glibc detected *** ", 23}, {"malloc(): memory corruption", 27}, {": 0x", 4}, {"0845c360", 8}, {" ***\n", 5}], 5*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0845c360 *** ) = 67 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 tgkill(17862, 17862, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ user@laptop ~ $ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.gaim 2.strace gaim 3. Actual Results: gaim crashes with the following error mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08468b60 *** Aborted Expected Results: gaim should not crash emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.1-r1 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, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r1, 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat5 /opt/glftpd/etc /opt/glftpd/ftp-data /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/mail/dspam /etc/rc.d /etc/terminfo /etc/wget /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/ ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 7zip X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl activefilter ada adns alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid artworkextra atm audiofile authfile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi bind-mysql bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bzip2 bzlib calendar caps cdb cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom chipcard chroot clearcase commercial cpdflib cpudetection crypt css ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbase dbm dbx dga dhcp dio directfb divx4linux djbfft dlz doc dpms dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread ecc edirectory edl eds emboss encode esd esx ethereal evo examples exif extensions fam fame fbcon fbdev filepro firebird flac flash flatfile flexresp font-server foomaticdb fortran fping frascend freetds freetype frxp ftp gcj gd gd-external gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glitz glut gmp gnokii gnome gnustep gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardenedphp haskell hbci howl iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile inline innodb ipv6 irda irmc jabber jack java javascript jbig jikes jit jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos kig-scripting krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libclamav libg++ libgda libwww lirc live lm_sensors logitech-mouse logmail lzo mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mcal mcve mhash mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmx mng mono motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork mpm-worker mppe-mppc mssql musepack mysql mythtv nas ncurses netboot nethack network nis nls nntp nptl ntlm oav objc odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl oss pam pam_chroot pam_console pam_timestamp pascal pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdflib perforce perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime php pic pie plotutils png pnp posix postgres povray pvm pwdb python qmail qt quicktime quotas quotes radius rdesktop readline real rtc ruby samba sasl savedconfig scanner sdk sdl sendfile server session sftplogging sguil shaper shared sharedmem silc simplexml skey slang slp smartcard sms snmp snortsam soap sockets softquota spamassassin speex spell spl sql sqlite sse ssl stream subversion svg svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts ucs2 udpfromto unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vidix vlm vorbis wddx wifi win32codecs winbind wmf wxwindows xanim xchatdccserver xchattext xforms xine xinetd xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yaz zeroconf zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
uh, sorry
See http://gaim.sf.net/gdb.php on instructions for getting a backtrace from gdb, which is what we'll require to move forward. Note the section in that page about malloc() statements.
Still waiting for that backtrace.
