glibc 6 free(): invalid pointer
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Bug Description
What happened: Multiple "*** glibc detected *** xxx: free(): invalid pointer: ..." in almost all programs
Version: Hardy Heron as of 2008-03-13
Unknown package
I've upgraded my system from Gutsy to Hardy. To do so i've changed all occurancies of "gutsy" in /etc/apt/
After this i was not able to make my system work. I've tried LiveCD, where i've chroot'ed to hd1 and tried to do anything. Almost every command was throwing "free(): invalid pointer" errors. But when i've tried to use /bin/sh insted of /bin/bash most of these errors disappeared, except for downloading of packaged through "aptitude" (hence i was not able to downgrade my system).
Then i've installed clean version of Ubuntu 7.10 Server and upgraded it up to Hardy. The system was behaving in the same way (a lot of invalid pointers).
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