Description of problem: According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/314931/glibcs-lmcheck-option-and-multithreading -> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6547 using MALLOC_CHECK_ breaks programs using threads. This unfortunately means MALLOC_CHECK_ is not applicable globally at all, it causes false crash positives. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): debugmode-9.34.3-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Did not try myself but just read a bugreport. Steps to Reproduce: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6547 Additional info: MALLOC_CHECK_ is not applicable, checked also glibc sources PR 6547 is still valid. MALLOC_PERTURB_ seems to be safe and working according to glibc sources. G_SLICE=debug-blocks is unrelated and robably still applicable. I got notified about it in: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2012-08/msg00097.html
Well, that's dumb. Jeff, any chance that is fixable these days?
Not without a redesign of the interfaces used by malloc_check. They simply weren't ever designed with multi-threaded access in mind and are inherently broken. I don't think this has bubbled up high enough on anyone's radar right now.
OK, fixed in git.
initscripts-9.41-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/initscripts-9.41-1.fc18
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initscripts-9.37.2-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/initscripts-9.37.2-1.fc17
initscripts-9.34.4-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/initscripts-9.34.4-1.fc16
initscripts-9.37.2-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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