Re: Gnome2-1.0.21 - GnomeIconList fails with glibc error

[Jeff Trefftzs <trefftzs tcsn net>]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 12:44 -0500, muppet wrote:
> Jeff Trefftzs said:
> > t/GnomeIconList..........ok 12/12*** glibc detected *** corrupted
> > double-linked list: 0x08f9fbd8 ***
>
> This means that glibc's malloc has discovered memory corruption, usually the
> result of somebody scribbling on the heap or writing to freed memory.

Serious stuff, that.

> valgrind should point out the offenders, if you care to run the test script
> with valgrind's --tool=memcheck.  gnome/gtk+ program stacks are ridiculously
> huge and gtk2-perl doesn't help that, so you may also want to use something
> like --num-callers=50.

Oh dear.  Well ... /me gets out valgrind manpage

> I would swear until i was blue in the face that this same issue came up very
> recently on this list, but google calls me a deja vu-suffering liar.

I thought so, too.  I'm sure I saw a reference to this *somewhere* --
but, like you, I can't find it either.

> > And I'm still using Glib-1.062 (getting 1.080 now).

Gotten, installed, tested (it works), but Gnome2 still has the corrupt
list.

> The fix, if it exists, would be in the latest Gnome2 module, but i can't see
> any relevant recent changes to it.  The last changes to GnomeIconList-related
> things were six months ago.

It recurs even with the latest versions of everything.

-- 
Jeff