Bug#682887: eog crashes with *** glibc detected *** eog: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000001d64c00 ***

[Michael Biebl]

tags = moreinfo
thanks

On 26.07.2012 18:43, Roberto Di Cosmo wrote:
> Package: eog
> Version: 3.4.2-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> eog requires to upgrade libxi-dev:amd64 to a version >> 2:1.3-6,
> and 2:1.6.1-1 worked for me. Otherwise eog crashes with the error
> *** glibc detected *** eog: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000001d64c00 ***
> 
> Since linxi-dev is not a direct dependency of eog, the problem might lie
> in some intermediate package in the dependency chain from eog to libxi-dev.
> 
> The system information below is *after* upgrading libxi-dev to the working version.
> 

Why should eog require a -dev package? This doesn't make sense

Michael


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