malloc_check problems

Bruno Bigras bigras.bruno at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 03:32:38 UTC 2009


2009/12/9 Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kubuntu.org>:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:40, Bruno Bigras <bigras.bruno at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since KDE's hard-freeze I switched to trunk to hunt some bugs and I
>> had problem with the MALOC_CHECK_ thing. I saw package updates for
>> glib but do we actually have the patched version form upstream? I
>> still see crashes with glib.
>
> You mean glibc, which is not the same as glib.

Yes you're right.


> I notified the developers some time ago, based on this blog post:
>
> http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2009/11/16/malloc_check_-crashes/
>
> Still waiting for a reply, but I will bugger them as often as
> necessary, we need that patch for Amarok, since the default glibc
> causes crashes galore :(

yes there's lot of duplicates because of this.


> IIRC, the glibc developers already released a patched version now.

I hope we can get it soon.

thanks for asking the dev for us,


Bruno




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