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Re: agh! lots of problems with libc6 v2.3.5-6 (x86) and libc6-dbg



On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:11:09PM +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> I just upped my testing version of libc (I've now got 2.3.5-6) and I'm
> having a few problems... unfortunately, I'm also having a few problems
> debugging.
> 
> I've got a python/libxml2/libxslt app that now reports:
> 
>   *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x081be648 ***
> 
> when I call a particular libxslt method more than once.
> 
> So, to try to find out whether this is a libc bug (looked like it
> might be to me) I tried debugging the python:
> 
>   gdb python
>   => run testxsl.py
> 
> that showed me the stack trace of what was at fault. I got a good list
> with all the symbols from inside python and from inside the
> libxml2/libxslt libraries.
> 
> Unfortunately, I was then stupid and installed libc6-dbg in order to
> get more info.
> 
> Now I get *no* python or libxml2/libxslt symbols in the stack
> traces. 

What does the backtrace look like without libc6-dbg installed?  What
does it look like with?


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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