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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:26:26
Message-Id: 1132345176.10259.5.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 *** by fire-eyes
1 On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:00 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
2 > Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an
4 > > explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums,
5 > > so I thought maybe someone here could help me with this.
6 > >
7 > > I wrote a Qt program. It compiles just fine, but when I try to run it I
8 > > get this:
9 > >
10 > > michael@camille ~/projects/c++/myFantasy/main/src $ ./src
11 > > *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1
12 > > ***
13 > > Aborted
14 > >
15 > >
16 > > Being fairly inexperienced with C++ I have no idea what this means. Is
17 > > this a problem with my program or with my system. Is there a way to fix
18 > > it? Can anyone at least explain to me what it means?
19 >
20 > Are you running a grsecurity and or pax kernel?
21 >
22 > I get this kind of crap left and right with it... Sometimes. Very
23 > unpredictable. Very annoying.
24 >
25
26 I don't know what "grsecurity" or "pax kernel" are. I use genkernel.
27 Here's the output of my uname:
28
29 michael@camille ~ $ uname -a
30 Linux camille 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 #1 Thu Nov 17 07:30:09 CST 2005 i686
31 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
32
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34 Out of curiosity, how do you get around this error?
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