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 1R1YmN-0007MW-5p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:12:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A053C21C0C6; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 07:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-osb-irony-out7.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-osb-irony-out7.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.108]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7619A21C04D for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 07:10:57 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAKdpaE58qaef/2dsb2JhbABDhFWjHniBcH4NAiYCUwwch3CWao1bkWuBLIQugREEh2qQWx6Lcw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,349,1312128000"; d="scan'208";a="38212370" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.167.159]) by outbound.icp-osb-irony-out7.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 08 Sep 2011 15:10:56 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B582744F1A for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:10:55 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fb9YTqg0MV5a for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:10:51 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.48.1] (troll [192.168.48.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A6044F10 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:10:51 +0800 (WST) Subject: [gentoo-user] glibc memory corruption From: Bill Kenworthy To: Gentoo Users Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:10:50 +0800 Message-ID: <1315465850.27959.55.camel@troll> 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: 8a0127b9db57e8d040ad60b954e54086 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