Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:27:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > > * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> > > >
> > > > > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
> > > > > invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
> > > >
> > > > Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had
> > > > exactly zero problems afterwards...
> > > >
> > > > Thorsten
> > >
> > > the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade binutils to
> > > get amarok to access it's collection at all)
> >
> > both work fine here - with glibc 2.11 and without workarounds.
> >
> > but have you tried MALLOC_CHECK_?
> 
> Not yet, that check will have to wait for later tonigh as I have just seen
>  the elog for qt-core.4.6.0_rc1 (which explains why I can't launch new apps
>  since lunchtime.....)
> 

sometimes it is a good idea to read planet.gentoo.org before you do an update 
;)