Re: 2.3.10 barely made it out of the gate :-(

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 01/30/2006 05:28:08 PM Mon, Willem Riede wrote:
> On 01/30/2006 07:34:51 AM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > On 01/30/2006 06:46:46 AM Mon, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > > On 01/30/2006 12:02:17 AM, Willem Riede wrote:
> > >> Crashed within minutes on my dual opteron FC5T2 x86_64:
> > >>>> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/balsa: double free or >>  
> > corruption
> > >> (fasttop): 0x0000000000cdbc70 ***
> > >> I am running it now on a FC5t2 machine, Sempron CPU  
> > without > problems. What's your system configuration? Balsa  
> > config? Does > it happen on startup?
> >
> > I started getting segfaults in the glibc allocation routines  
> > called by g_string_sized_new (FC4 Athlon), but they've gone  
> > away since I upgraded from glib-2.8.4/gtk-2.8.8 to  
> > 2.9.5/2.8.11.
>
> I built balsa myself, against:
>
> glib.i386                                1:1.2.10-18.2           
> installed
> glib.x86_64                              1:1.2.10-18.2           
> installed
> glibc.i686                               2.3.90-30               
> installed
> glibc.x86_64                             2.3.90-30               
> installed
> gtk2.x86_64                              2.8.9-1.1               
> installed
> gtk2.i386                                2.8.9-1.1               
> installed
>
> so I don't know what component at release 2.8.4 or 2.9.5 you  
> are referring to...

My bad--those were glib2 versions.

> As to the error I reported - it was not right at startup, but  
> after looking at a couple of messages. And it is not  
> reproducable - happened only once so far.
>
> I could upgrade to gtk2-2.8.11 if that's recommended (it is in  
> rawhide).

I don't know that it's recommended--just that it fixed some  
problems for me!

Peter