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Re: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0xae8c2f80 ***


On Friday 01 May 2009 13:29:56 Justin Mattock wrote:
> for some time I've been getting
> crashes with firefox when watching a movie
> on hulu(good stuff when firefox doesn't crash and burn)
>
> Anyways when clicking on the fullscreen button this is what
> I saw in the terminal:
>
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: free(): invalid
> pointer: 0xae8c2f80 ***
>
> seems I cant reproduce this message(tried a few times afterwords with
> no message just a frozen firefox).
>
> As for any other options the popup window seems stable
> after updating glib/gtk(seems to be the more preferred option in any case)

most likely (99.9%) this has nothing to do with glibc.  you should file a 
report with your Linux distributor as it is more likely a bug in firefox or 
the plugin you're using or the media library that plugin is using.  the 
distributor will hash out the details.
-mike

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