[Fontconfig] Possible memory problem

Stephan Kulow coolo at suse.de
Sat Dec 3 23:54:03 PST 2005


On Sunday 04 December 2005 07:08, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I installed fontconfig from branch, I'm experiencing memory
> problems with firefox.  I cannot reproduce this without branch,
> but almost always happens with.  I went back on branch to
> 2004-11-29, happenning still.
>
> With firefox, when exiting, I get the following glibc-detected
> invalid pointer:
>
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0xdc7124]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x77)[0xdc765f]
> /home/behdad/.local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcValueListDestroy+0x1d0)[0x7172
>ec]
> /home/behdad/.local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcPatternDestroy+0x155)[0x717750
>] /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/components/libgfx_gtk.so[0x3f4a746]
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/components/libgfx_gtk.so[0x3f4a97a]
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/components/libgfx_gtk.so[0x3f4b698]
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/components/libgfx_gtk.so[0x3f4ea73]
> ...
>
>
> I also valgrinded pango/examples/pango-cairoview.  With branch, I
> get this:
>
The valgrind log is pretty much meaningless and just a warning. Do you get
a crash with the pango example too? Or a valgrind hit with firefox? I have
no problems whatsoever with firefox and the fontconfig CVS. But then again
I have a newer firefox version.

Greetings, Stephan

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