Bug#482431: backtrace with symbols

Avery Fay avery at shadypixel.com
Fri May 23 23:13:08 UTC 2008


Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008, Avery Fay wrote:
>   
>> Hopefully better backtrace follow:
>>
>> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager: free(): invalid 
>>     
>
>  I think the backtrace is probably useless on this free(), it's likely
>  some memory corruption.  Instead, try running
>  /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager: in valgrind and look for invalid free()s.
>
>
>   
I took a look at the source. It's really just trying to free memory that 
was never allocated. I've attached a fix. On the other hand, my machine 
still doesn't shutdown properly. Perhaps the whole UPS code path hasn't 
been tested yet?
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