Description of problem: When starting Emacs this immediately fails with a glibc error message: memory corruption detected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-22.0.95-1.fc7 emacs-common-22.0.95-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install emacs 2. Start emacs 3. see glibc error message Actual results: glibc detects memory corruption. Expected results: Emacs should start. Additional info: I have installed emacs-debuginfo, here is the gdb stack trace: (gdb) bt #0 0x00000030628305b5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000003062832060 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000003062868e1b in __libc_message () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x0000003062870d8c in _int_malloc () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #4 0x000000306287269d in malloc () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #5 0x000000000050ac5c in emacs_blocked_malloc (size=104, ptr=<value optimized out>) at alloc.c:1244 #6 0x0000003062827ebd in _nl_intern_locale_data () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #7 0x000000306282874a in _nl_load_locale_from_archive () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #8 0x000000306282788d in _nl_find_locale () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #9 0x000000306282726e in setlocale () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #10 0x00000000004b285f in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff8a7b2ee8) at emacs.c:1077 #11 0x000000306281daa4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #12 0x000000000040d9e9 in _start () My local is de_DE.UTF-8, also try with LANG=c, same result.
Created attachment 155131 [details] Log with full debugger run and glibc error message
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