[SOLVED] Upgrades broke glibc

Question

At least I think that's what happened. I usually upgrade with a 'yaourt -Syu --aur --devel', select no to edit PKGBUILDs, and if it's been a while opt not to use existing sources and instead downloading everything again. I've now got a whole schwack of programs that don't want to start - nautilus, gnome-terminal, evince - and a couple that have issues that may or may not be related - chromium, firefox (webkit ?) - and crash whenever I try to download a file.
When I try to start nautilus et al I get:
*** glibc detected *** nautilus: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000cc678a ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x7366a)[0x7f15ba42866a]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6c)[0x7f15ba42c54c]
/usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0(gtk_theming_engine_register_property+0xc1)[0x7f15bd2a9ad1]
/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/libadwaita.so(+0x29ff)[0x7f15b41809ff]
/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0(g_application_run+0x114)[0x7f15bbaca124]
nautilus[0x429790]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7f15ba3d617d]
nautilus[0x4297d1]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00559000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1962291 /usr/bin/nautilus
00758000-0075e000 rw-p 00158000 08:11 1962291 /usr/bin/nautilus
0075e000-0075f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
00cb0000-00d35000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
7f15b0000000-7f15b0021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f15b0021000-7f15b4000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
7f15b417e000-7f15b4186000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 2243317 /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/libadwaita.so
7f15b8e5d000-7f15b905d000 ---p 00009000 08:11 1133343 /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
7f15b905d000-7f15b905e000 rw-p 00009000 08:11 1133343 /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
7f15b905e000-7f15b9066000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1133114 Aborted
System:
$ uname -a
Linux dekstop 2.6.39-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 9 14:57:41 CEST 2011 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Packages:
$ yaourt -Ss glibc | grep installed
core/glibc 2.14-4 (base) [installed]
multilib/lib32-glibc 2.14-4 [installed]
Some threads suggest telling glibc to continue after receiving a memory free error by setting MALLOC_CHECK_=1 but this did not work for me. Would it be advisable to downgrade glibc? If so how is that done in Arch, I'm relatively new to this distribution.
Thanks for any help.
Last edited by captainron (2011-08-03 03:08:36)

Answer 1

[OT]
The grep part is handy (but he should grep for the package name), as pacman searches the whole 'pacman -Qi' output:
[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Qs syslog
local/perl-device-modem 1.54-1 [0,12 MB]
Perl extension to talk to modem devices connected via serial port
local/syslog-ng 3.2.4-3 [1,16 MB] (base)
Next-generation syslogd with advanced networking and filtering capabilities
'--quiet' doesn't help of course:
[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Qqs syslog
perl-device-modem
syslog-ng
Why would I want perl-device-modem if I'm searching for syslog?
[/OT]
Last edited by karol (2011-08-01 21:01:01)