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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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.....)
 

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