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On 09/08/2011 10:10 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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> What would cause this? |
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> bunyip rpm # /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware |
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> *** glibc detected *** /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: malloc(): |
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> memory corruption: 0x09f35e80 *** |
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> ^C |
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> bunyip rpm # |
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> Ive tried doing a emerge -ep world |
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> glibc is |
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> * sys-libs/glibc |
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> Latest version available: 2.12.2 |
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> Latest version installed: 2.12.2 |
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> Size of downloaded files: 16,008 kB |
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> Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html |
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> Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library |
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> License: LGPL-2 |
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> Ive tried vmware 7.1.3 and 7.1.4 from the vmware overlay and various |
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> kernels |
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> google has lots of occurrences but no fixes Ive found. |
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> Next step is to try a newer glibc but I would like to know if there are |
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> any more obvious steps to take first. |
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This isn't something you can fix. Only the VMware developers can do that. |
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Do you have the MALLOC_CHECK env var set, btw? AFAIK, these "glibc |
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detected" messages are the result of that. It's usually a bad idea as |
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it's slows down all software on your system. |
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