Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

> > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote:
> > > > I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large
> > > > directory. The setup is as follows:
> > > >
> > > > /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box
> > > > nsswitch is set to use LDAP for passwd, shadow, and group info
> > > > nscd is running to cache the responses from LDAP
> > > >
> > > > I try to run ls -l /home, and get the error
> > > >
> > > > steven@soda:~$ ls -l /home
> > > > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xa7f9ad38 ***
> > > > Aborted

I'm seeing this same error in Etch, using xhfs to open a hfs formatted
volume. In Sarge it works OK, with the same version of xhfs.

I am under the impression that glibc broke something between version
2.3.2 (in Sarge) and 2.3.6 (which Etch has).