Bug 127256 – fortune causes glibc free() error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Michael Simmons 2006-03-22 19:14:56 UTC]

The Error

$ fortune
Are there those in the land of the brave
Who can tell me how I should behave
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000000000053cd20 ***


The Info

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
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="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-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/lib64/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/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dri dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mhash mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline recode ruby samba sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2006-03-22 19:22:51 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107089 ***