[SOLVED] Programs crash with error "double free or corruption" after latest glib2 upgrade

kgha · 12-07-2023, 04:16 AM

EDITED - not just one program affected! Mousepad and Engrampa programs crash after Dec. 6th upgrades

When trying to launch Engrampa from terminal:

Code:

~$ engrampa
double free or corruption (fasttop)
Aborted

Tried recompiling engrampa-1.26.1, same result
Tried upgrading to engrampa-1.27.1, same result

Extracting works fine with xarchiver, or if I just right-click and choose "Extract" (in SpaceFM).

Mousepad starts OK, but when I try opening a textfile I get the same error message.

Didier Spaier · 12-07-2023, 04:49 AM

No issue here with engrampa-1.26.1, but that's on Slint64-15.0 based on Slackware64-15.0

kgha · 12-07-2023, 06:55 AM

The following programs also suffer from crashes with the same message:

atril (when tryoing to open a file from within the program)
evince (when trying to save a file in a different folder

eye of mate image viewer, although with a slightly different message:

Code:

free(): double free detected in tcache 2
Aborted

to me it seems to have something to do with how the programs (fails to) access my various folders in home/<user>/

garpu · 12-07-2023, 08:13 AM

You're on current, too? I was trying to run xfdesktop --replace to get my xfce4 desktop working, and got a similar error:

"* (xfdesktop:11822): WARNING **: 09:09:07.306: Failed to register the newly set background with AccountsService '/usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-blue.jpg': GDBus.Error

rg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface “org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService”
double free or corruption (fasttop)"

kgha · 12-07-2023, 09:01 AM

Good to hear I'm not the only one. And yes, I'm on -current.

I wondered if yesterday's aaa_libraries upgrade could be the culprit but downgrading to previous version made no difference.

garpu · 12-07-2023, 09:03 AM

Last time there was a problem with XFCE4 desktops not displaying correctly, I believe it was an SDL error? But SDL was recompiled (twice) against the new libtiff.

kgha · 12-07-2023, 09:07 AM

Found the culprit: latest glib2 upgrade. Downgrading to glib2-2.78.1 and abovementioned issues are all gone.

garpu · 12-07-2023, 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kgha

Found the culprit: latest glib2 upgrade. Downgrading to glib2-2.78.1 and abovementioned issues are all gone.

Huh, interesting. I wonder why a new user on my computer didn't have an issue with xfce4?

BrunoLafleur · 12-07-2023, 09:45 AM

May be a bug. There was little time between 2.78.3 and 2.78.2.

Overview of changes in GLib 2.78.3, 2023-12-06
==============================================

* Fix a crash-causing regression in xdgmime (#3191, work by Philip Withnall)

* Bugs fixed:
- #3191 Crash in __gio_xdg_cache_mime_type_subclass (Philip Withnall)
- !3747 Backport !3742 “xdgmime: Update to upstream commit c2c814d4051f232” to
glib-2-78

Overview of changes in GLib 2.78.2, 2023-12-05
==============================================

kgha · 12-07-2023, 10:21 AM

Merci beaucoup, m. Lafleur!

Compiled glib2-2.78.3 using Pat's buildscript and everything runs OK after upgrade.

garpu · 12-07-2023, 10:31 AM

I have to admit, plasma's growing on me. The weather report widget times out every other time I load the desktop, though, but it's a known issue. (Pour one out for yawp, the best weather widget that existed.)

rahrah · 12-07-2023, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kgha

Merci beaucoup, m. Lafleur!

Compiled glib2-2.78.3 using Pat's buildscript and everything runs OK after upgrade.

Hi,

I, too, was having problems, getting:

Code:

double free or corruption (fasttop)

when running spice-gtk (qemu client) under glib2-2.28.2.

I first downgraded to glib2-2.78.1, which fixed the problem. I then did the same as @kgha, used Pat's script for glib2-2.78.3 which fixed the problem, too. Wish I'd looked here first!

Thanks to all!

===Rich

DryFalls · 12-07-2023, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kgha

Found the culprit: latest glib2 upgrade. Downgrading to glib2-2.78.1 and abovementioned issues are all gone.

my problem involved lxpanel and pcmanfm/pcmanfm-qt. Tried downgrading glib2 to no avail. will try 2.78.3.

garpu · 12-07-2023, 12:04 PM

Yep. Downgrading glib2 fixed xfce4 for me. Real question is: why was another user on my computer just fine?

pc2005 · 12-07-2023, 03:42 PM

Heh same problem with glib2, firefox crashes in libgio when I open a file dialog with a directory containing .json file. Downgrade fixed that.