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_?