Bug#525534: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:23:29PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.10.0-19
> Severity: important
 
> When building the libgtk2-mozembed-perl 0.08-1 package,
> various arches saw an error like this:
> t/GtkMozEmbed....Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":99.0".
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption (out): 0x00002b364e552920 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0x2b3645d4c1b8]
> /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x2b3645d4dcf6]
> /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(perl_destruct+0x136d)[0x2b36453739fd]
> /usr/bin/perl(main+0xb3)[0x400ce3]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x2b3645cf85a6]
> /usr/bin/perl[0x400b69]

As Gtk2::MozEmbed isn't pure Perl but an XS module, the bug can well be
in its C parts. It's a bit early to blame Perl itself.

I'll have a look though.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org