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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:08:39 -0600
From:      Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>, "Mezz bsdforums.org" <reigncracks@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vte 2.2.1 halt and lagging the CPU.. (freeze)
Message-ID:  <20030325190839.GA64640@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:06, Franz Klammer wrote:
>
> > Am Di, 2003-03-25 um 02.11 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:38, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > JUST FOR INFO:
> > > > > > also abiword2-1.1.4 dies with a segfault at startup if LANG is set.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Set to what?
> > > > 
> > > > to my locale:
> > > > de_[DE|AT].ISO[_]8859-1[5] -> segfault  (error-dialog in german)
> > > 
> > > Okay, this doesn't happen on -STABLE.  I can see AbiWord just fine
> > > in German.  I'm pretty sure you're all running 5.x of some kind.
> > > My -CURRENT machine is getting some much-needed love since I left
> > > last week.  I should be able to test AbiWord on it tomorrow.
> > > In the meantime, if you could recompile AbiWord with debugging
> > > symbols, and capture the crash, that would help to get the ball
> > > rolling.  Thanks.
> > >
> > 
> > tadaa!
> 
> I found a workaround.  If you edit /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c,
> and set junk and abort to 0, then rebuild libc, this problem will
> go away.  This means that there is some memory issues in AniWord
> (and probably other apps as well).  -STABLE and 5.0-RELEASE won't be
> affected as they already have these changes.  I'm unable to get a
> backtrace for my AbiWord, but I'll try and debug yours, Franz.
> 
> Joe

Why not just set the malloc options to 'aj', as per the malloc man page?

-- 
Glenn Johnson
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