From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061027 Firefox/2.0 Description of problem: When using system-config-users to create a new user the dialog freezes after pressing the ok button. When running it from the command line the following error is displayed: # system-config-users *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python2: free(): invalid pointer: 0x082560b0 *** Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-users-1.2.51-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start system-config-users from command line 2. Press "Add user" 3. User name: test 4. Full name: Test 5. Password/Confirm password: some password 6. Press OK Actual Results: The gui freezes and the following error is printed: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python2: free(): invalid pointer: 0x082560b0 *** Expected Results: user should have been created. Additional info: glibc-2.5.90-14 python-2.5-6.fc7
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This is being caused by libuser allocating memory with PyObject_Malloc and then freeing it with PyMem_DEL. In python 2.5, these actually have a differences (so that the interpreter can return memory to the system). Fixed in libuser-0.55-2