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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:41:50
Message-Id: 200911191740.27859.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10 by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:37:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:27:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 > > > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > > > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
6 > > > > > * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
7 > > > > >
8 > > > > > > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
9 > > > > > > invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
10 > > > > >
11 > > > > > Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had
12 > > > > > exactly zero problems afterwards...
13 > > > > >
14 > > > > > Thorsten
15 > > > >
16 > > > > the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade binutils
17 > > > > to get amarok to access it's collection at all)
18 > > >
19 > > > both work fine here - with glibc 2.11 and without workarounds.
20 > > >
21 > > > but have you tried MALLOC_CHECK_?
22 > >
23 > > Not yet, that check will have to wait for later tonigh as I have just
24 > > seen the elog for qt-core.4.6.0_rc1 (which explains why I can't launch
25 > > new apps since lunchtime.....)
26 >
27 > sometimes it is a good idea to read planet.gentoo.org before you do an
28 > update ;)
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31 Timeline:
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33 T minus 10: read planet. Nothing new.
34 T minus 8: emerge -avuND world
35 T minus 6: examine list, fix blockers, fix dumbass USE requirements, enter
36 T minus 4: do work $STUFF
37 T minus 2: new planet post in RSS reader
38 T minus 0: oh shit....
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44 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>