Bug 123025 – gaim-2.0.0_beta2-r1 startup crash: invalid next size

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Andreas Herrmann 2006-02-16 05:09:13 UTC]

gaim-2.0.0_beta2-r1 always chrashes on startup. I have no plugins installed and moved  ~/.gaim/ to ~/.gaim.old/

[ebuild   R   ] net-im/gaim-2.0.0_beta2-r1  -bonjour -cjk +dbus +debug -eds -gnutls -krb4 -mono -nas +nls +perl -silc -spell -tcltk -xscreensaver

>gaim
...
*** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid next size: 0x0838bbc8 ***
Aborted (core dumped)

>gdb gaim core
...
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb769e101 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0xb769f7fd in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3  0xb76d0ba7 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#4  0xb76d68c6 in malloc_usable_size () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#5  0xb76d86d4 in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#6  0xb76d941d in realloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#7  0xb7867d3f in g_realloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0x0838bbc8 in ?? ()
#9  0x00001016 in ?? ()
#10 0xbfbaf1c8 in ?? ()
#11 0x00001000 in ?? ()
#12 0xbfbae1b0 in ?? ()
#13 0x0818b040 in ?? ()
#14 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#15 0x080b3038 in gaim_url_fetch_request ()
#16 0x080f5ecc in dnd_hints_show_relative ()
#17 0xb7888c00 in g_vasprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x08388aa8 in ?? ()
#19 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#20 0x08389d38 in ?? ()
#21 0xb786380c in g_main_context_wakeup () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#22 0x08389840 in ?? ()
#23 0xb7860f0d in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#24 0x08388aa8 in ?? ()
#25 0xb78bd1a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#26 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#27 0xb7888bb0 in g_vasprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#28 0x08166264 in ?? ()
#29 0x08394a90 in ?? ()
#30 0xb788b9d7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#31 0x00000000 in ?? ()


Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15.3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15.3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
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-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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/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/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="en_IE@euro"
LC_ALL="en_IE@euro"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid asf audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr encode ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad matrox mbox mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png pnp python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl sftplogging slang spell sse ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Kathryn Kulick (RETIRED) 2006-06-30 08:54:15 UTC]

beta2 has been removed from the tree, please reopen if beta3 causes the same problem.