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 1R1aoV-0008Cg-E1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:22:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ADEF21C33A; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A662221C1C8 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278F21B4023 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:20:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.873 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.873 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.537, BAYES_00=-2.599, DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24=2.189, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EIeAz8zbF5CH for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C99E1B401D for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1amq-0002q8-71 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:20:44 +0200 Received: from athedsl-391773.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.82.91]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:20:44 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-391773.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:20:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc memory corruption Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:20:12 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-391773.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110822 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <1315465850.27959.55.camel@troll> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4c0491bd81e50e9983e9bf4ba22a7f63 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.