Hello colleagues,

i'm trying to find out, why this 

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julia> Pkg.test("Cairo")
INFO: Testing Cairo
INFO: Cairo tests passed

julia> Pkg.test("Cairo")
INFO: Testing Cairo
INFO: Cairo tests passed

julia> Pkg.test("Cairo")
INFO: Testing Cairo
INFO: Cairo tests passed

julia> Pkg.test("Cairo")
INFO: Testing Cairo
INFO: Cairo tests passed

julia> Pkg.test("Cairo")
INFO: Testing Cairo
INFO: Cairo tests passed

julia> Pkg.test("Cairo")
INFO: Testing Cairo
*** Error in `/home/lobi/julia05/usr/bin/julia': free(): invalid pointer: 
0x0000000004013e80 ***

signal (6): Aborted
while loading /home/lobi/.julia/v0.5/Cairo/samples/sample_imagepattern.jl, 
in expression starting on line 29
raise at 
/build/eglibc-3GlaMS/eglibc-2.19/signal/../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
abort at /build/eglibc-3GlaMS/eglibc-2.19/stdlib/abort.c:89
__libc_message at 
/build/eglibc-3GlaMS/eglibc-2.19/libio/../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
malloc_printerr at /build/eglibc-3GlaMS/eglibc-2.19/malloc/malloc.c:4996 
[inlined]
_int_free at /build/eglibc-3GlaMS/eglibc-2.19/malloc/malloc.c:3840
jl_gc_free_array at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gc.c:744 [inlined]
sweep_malloced_arrays at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gc.c:765 [inlined]
gc_sweep_other at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gc.c:1032 [inlined]
_jl_gc_collect at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gc.c:1792 [inlined]
jl_gc_collect at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gc.c:1858
jl_gc_pool_alloc at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gc.c:828
jl_gc_alloc_ at /home/lobi/julia05/src/julia_internal.h:148 [inlined]
jl_gc_alloc at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gc.c:1881
jl_alloc_svec_uninit at /home/lobi/julia05/src/simplevector.c:47
jl_alloc_svec at /home/lobi/julia05/src/simplevector.c:56
intersect_tuple at /home/lobi/julia05/src/jltypes.c:601
jl_type_intersect at /home/lobi/julia05/src/jltypes.c:992
jl_type_intersection_matching at /home/lobi/julia05/src/jltypes.c:1510
jl_lookup_match at /home/lobi/julia05/src/typemap.c:376 [inlined]
jl_typemap_intersection_node_visitor at /home/lobi/julia05/src/typemap.c:503
jl_typemap_intersection_visitor at /home/lobi/julia05/src/typemap.c:565
jl_typemap_intersection_visitor at /home/lobi/julia05/src/typemap.c:556
ml_matches at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gf.c:2266 [inlined]
jl_matching_methods at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gf.c:2287
_methods_by_ftype at ./reflection.jl:223
unknown function (ip: 0x7f00077b1f22)
jl_call_method_internal at /home/lobi/julia05/src/julia_internal.h:189 
[inlined]
jl_apply_generic at /home/lobi/julia05/src/gf.c:1929
inlineable at ./inference.jl:2496
unknown function (ip: 0x7f00077c4c92)


fails miserably. I guess, but cannot track it down right now: There is 
something wrong in memory management of Cairo.jl that only shows up for 
objects that could have been freed long ago and julia and libcairo have 
different concepts of invalidation.

Any blog/receipe/issue that deals with GC debugging?

Wishing a happy day,
        Andreas

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