Stroller wrote: > > On 30 Jun 2006, at 22:07, Stroller wrote: >> ... >> Leafnode was working perfectly fine until a few days ago, then all of >> a sudden when I try to grab messages from upstream I get the following: >> >> ... >> $ sudo fetchnews -vvv >> Password: >> fetchnews mode: get articles, get headers, get bodies, post articles >> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): >> 0x08067d98 *** >> Aborted >> $ > > Further to this I've just discovered that I have two versions of gcc > installed on my system. Could this be related? > > $ eix ^gcc$ > * sys-devel/gcc > Available versions: [P]2.95.3-r9 [P]3.1.1-r2 [P]3.2.2 > [P]3.2.3-r4 [P]3.3.2-r7 3.3.5-r1 3.3.5.20050130-r1 3.3.6 ~3.3.6-r1 > ~3.4.1-r3 3.4.4-r1 3.4.5 3.4.5-r1 ~3.4.6 3.4.6-r1 *4.0.2-r3 *4.0.3 > ~4.1.0-r1 ~4.1.1 [M]4.2.0_alpha20060603 > Installed: 3.3.6 3.4.6-r1 > Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/ > Description: The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes > C/C++, java compilers, pie+ssp extensions, Haj Ten Brugge runtime > bounds checking > > Found 1 matches > $ `which gcc` --version > gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) > Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. > There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR > PURPOSE. > > $ > > Should I `emerge -C` one of these versions of gcc, or would that be a > Dumb Idea? > > Stroller. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > I would make sure to run revdep-rebuild first to make sure nothing will break. If something links to it or gcc fails afterwards, it is a mess to fix.
Also run gcc-config -l and make sure which version you are using. It should have a little * next to the one you are using. May want to wait on a serious guru to make sure of all this too. This can be one of those that you can't be to careful with. Dale :-) :-) -- [email protected] mailing list
