Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few moments ago I found "texshow" in the help section of my window > manager and wanted to try it out, which did not produce any screen > output (i.e. no window appeared). Subsequent search turned out, that > the menu entry calls > /usr/bin/texshow [...] > I tried to figure out a pattern when it starts and when it does not, > but failed. The point of the memory corruption varies from call to > call, btw.: > *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000000f7cfa0 *** > *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000000f7fb90 *** > *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000000f77ba0 *** [...] > Please tell me what else to try to narrow this down. > > Could this be related to me using grsec? [...] > Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends: > ii libxml-parser-perl 2.34-4 Perl module for parsing XML files > ii perl-tk 1:804.027-5 Perl module providing the Tk > graph
I have no experience with grsec. Could you try whether other applications that use Perl-TK show similar behavior? From tetex-bin, you could try texfind and texdoctk, but of course there are lots of others. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
