Frederik Eaton wrote: > I'm running into the following problem. Whenever I try to configure > 'locales' (which is whenever I try to install something with 'apt', > since the configuration fails each time), I get the following error: > > # dpkg --configure locales > Setting up locales (2.3.5-3) ... Welcome to Sid/unstable. > Generating locales (this might take a while)... > en_US.ISO-8859-1... done > en_US.ISO-8859-15... done > en_US.UTF-8... done > Generation complete. > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x1061c720 *** > dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) > Errors were encountered while processing: > locales I read a lot of the lists and I remember seeing this as a known bug in the latest glibc from somewhere. But I don't remember where I heard that and I don't have a pointer to this vague memory of mine about it. Sorry. I could not see this in the BTS though so I am somewhat doubting my memory. So take this with the proper level of caution about the veracity of my statement. > Any idea why this would be? Apparently if I set MALLOC_CHECK_ to 0 > then it goes away, but I thought I'd mention it since it seems > indicative of a bug somewhere. You may want to downgrade. Bob
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