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* [gentoo-user] glibc memory corruption
@ 2011-09-08  7:10 Bill Kenworthy
  2011-09-09  9:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bill Kenworthy @ 2011-09-08  7:10 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo Users

What would cause this?

bunyip rpm # /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
*** glibc detected *** /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: malloc():
memory corruption: 0x09f35e80 ***
^C
bunyip rpm #

Ive tried doing a emerge -ep world
glibc is 

*  sys-libs/glibc
      Latest version available: 2.12.2
      Latest version installed: 2.12.2
      Size of downloaded files: 16,008 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
      Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
      License:     LGPL-2

Ive tried vmware 7.1.3 and 7.1.4 from the vmware overlay and various
kernels

google has lots of occurrences but no fixes Ive found.

Next step is to try a newer glibc but I would like to know if there are
any more obvious steps to take first.

BillK






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* [gentoo-user] Re: glibc memory corruption
  2011-09-08  7:10 [gentoo-user] glibc memory corruption Bill Kenworthy
@ 2011-09-09  9:20 ` Nikos Chantziaras
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2011-09-09  9:20 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 09/08/2011 10:10 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> What would cause this?
>
> bunyip rpm # /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
> *** glibc detected *** /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: malloc():
> memory corruption: 0x09f35e80 ***
> ^C
> bunyip rpm #
>
> Ive tried doing a emerge -ep world
> glibc is
>
> *  sys-libs/glibc
>        Latest version available: 2.12.2
>        Latest version installed: 2.12.2
>        Size of downloaded files: 16,008 kB
>        Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
>        Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
>        License:     LGPL-2
>
> Ive tried vmware 7.1.3 and 7.1.4 from the vmware overlay and various
> kernels
>
> google has lots of occurrences but no fixes Ive found.
>
> Next step is to try a newer glibc but I would like to know if there are
> any more obvious steps to take first.

This isn't something you can fix.  Only the VMware developers can do that.

Do you have the MALLOC_CHECK env var set, btw?  AFAIK, these "glibc 
detected" messages are the result of that.  It's usually a bad idea as 
it's slows down all software on your system.




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