sounds like broken installation/old plugins to me. valgrind ran
through clean (at least a couple of weeks ago when i last tried).

j.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Ulrich Pegelow
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Feel free ;)
>
> Am 29.10.2012 19:29, schrieb Mikko Rasa:
>> Uh, no, those messages have nothing to do with memory leaks.  "free():
>> invalid pointer" means that free got a pointer that was already freed
>> earlier, or wasn't malloced at all.  If detected, glibc will simply
>> ignore such pointers, but don't lull yourself into a false sense of
>> security - the real danger are the potential cases that are _not_
>> detected.  Depending on exactly how the code is misbehaving, it may end
>> up freeing memory that shouldn't have been freed yet, or it may try to
>> free a pointer to an unmapped region, causing a hard segfault.
>>
>> Any memory errors like this should be taken seriously and solved
>> immediately before they have a chance to fester, not "at some point".
>> As Jesper already pointed out, valgrind is a good tool for finding out
>> exactly what's going wrong.
>>
>> Mikko
>>
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