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glibc invalid pointer

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May 26, 2005 at 05:09:28 Pacific
Specs: mandriva LE 2005, pentium M

I was installing Firefox on my Mandriva LE 2005 and after the first dialog box pop up, this error came along "*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08ea5550 ***
" . I have tried to reload in glibc and glibc-deve but did not help..
Is this a s/w bug or????

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June 4, 2005 at 16:57:33 Pacific

A change appears to have been made in the glibc code.
The default response to invalid 'free()' calls is now to call 'abort()'.

To get around this try putting the following in /etc/profile

export MALLOC_CHECK_=1 # Report error and continue

OR

export MALLOC_CHECK_=0 # Ignore error

The fault appears to be in the application you are running. Might be worthwhile reporting the app provider.

Home this helps.
Iain


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