glibc 6 free(): invalid pointer

Bug #202179 reported by Gleb Peregud
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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/source.list to "hardy" and typed "sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade". After this process completed i've restared to new kernel and tried to run "sudo aptitude full-upgrade". Output is attached.

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).

Feel free to ask for more details.

Tags: hardy
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Gleb Peregud (gleber-p) wrote :
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Gert Kulyk (gkulyk) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #201673, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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