Re: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:33 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
> > I'm getting  "*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption" with 
> > Evolution & Gnome built from current cvs head. Is this a known issue 
> > with glib ?
>
> It's a bug in the application, but see the man page for malloc() for
> an environment variable to disable malloc checking, which may let
> the application run.
>
> Assuming your applications were compiled against the version of
> glibc you are running, you could use gdb to get a stack trace and
> report bugs, too...
Can I confirm that glibc here refers to the C libraries - I have 
mandrake's 2.3.5 version; or does it refer to gnome's libglib (built by 
glib) ? There have apparently been major major memory allocation changes 
to libglib, correct ?
thanks
Rod
> Liam

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