Bug#443628: vlc: At start-up: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x082b78a0

[Loïc Minier]

severity 443628 important
retitle 443628 VLC crashes at startup (due to broken wxwidgets2.6)
block 443628 with #441766
stop

        Hi,

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> At start up, VLC bombs out with the following text: 
>         > vlc
>         VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
>         *** glibc detected *** vlc: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x082b78a0 ***

 This is a bug in the wxwidgets2.6 lib which vlc uses in its default
 interface.  See also #441766.

 You can launch vlc as follows as a workaround:
    G_SLICE=always-malloc vlc

   Bye,
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Loïc Minier