297319 – GTK/Glib applications crash when running under KDE4.3x (malloc_printerr, free(): invalid pointer), <=sys-libs/glibc-2.11.1

Bug 297319 - GTK/Glib applications crash when running under KDE4.3x (malloc_printerr, free(): invalid pointer), <=sys-libs/glibc-2.11.1

Summary: GTK/Glib applications crash when running under KDE4.3x (malloc_printerr, free...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 293527

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers

URL:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=...
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Reported:	2009-12-17 20:11 UTC by Cyp
Modified:	2009-12-17 21:29 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Cyp 2009-12-17 20:11:46 UTC

krunner crashed, very rare and non-reproducible. (Think it crashed twice in the last few months.)

Kde blames glibc. (See url.)

I'm on stable =sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, people with 2.10.1 also affected. Possibly only affects amd64.
=sys-libs/glibc-2.11.1 should work. (I can't verify that it works – the crashes are so rare, that no crashes for a few months wouldn't be statistically significant.)

Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-17 20:26:44 UTC

We are in the process to stabilise 2.10.1, 2.11 is a bit away still as a new Glibc is always a big thing.  The right fix is to backport the fix from 2.11 to a to be stabilised revision of 2.10.  Please try if setting MALLOC_CHECK=0 helps.

The upstream bug report http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10282 contains a fix, which is in 2.11.1, but maybe vapier already backported it.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-12-17 21:29:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 293527 ***