On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:37:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > 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.....) > > > > sometimes it is a good idea to read planet.gentoo.org before you do an > > update ;) > > Timeline: > > T minus 10: read planet. Nothing new. > T minus 8: emerge -avuND world > T minus 6: examine list, fix blockers, fix dumbass USE requirements, enter > T minus 4: do work $STUFF > T minus 2: new planet post in RSS reader > T minus 0: oh shit.... >
if you have buildpkg turned on, you can save yourself some time with a qt downgrade ;)
