From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcx3t-0006PP-17 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:04:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AD7C1C00D for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 10:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from extserv.mm-sol.com (unknown [213.240.235.226]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA751C027 for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.5.100] (unknown [84.40.120.126]) by extserv.mm-sol.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0DC42C3AB for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:36:12 +0300 (EEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off glibc's runtime error checks? From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:32:27 +0300 Message-ID: <1309599147.13573.1.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3b37bbd5ef18f6ee52fec9eba96506d2 Hi, On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 04:18 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/02/2011 03:05 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > This is driving me nuts. Since a few days ago, glibc will abort programs > > with a: > > > > *** glibc detected *** program: free(): invalid pointer: ... *** > > > > or similar error message. I have no idea which package was updated that > > triggered this. I did *not* emerge glibc (qlop confirms that I emerged > > glibc 3 months ago.) > > > > The crashing programs *are* buggy. You can also check this one: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 iivanov