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Atriqus

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From: Oscoda or Melbourne

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 24

Gnome Keyboard Properties invalid pointer

I keep getting

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb74ae9a0 ***

everytime I try to run gnome-keyboard-properties.

On a side note, the weather report applet seems to only list North America and the Middle East as possible locations, and it seems that Alaska is the only state in the US.

Anyone else have these problems or is it only occuring on my computers?

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Atriqus

Member

From: Oscoda or Melbourne

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 24

Re: Gnome Keyboard Properties invalid pointer

Nevermind, everthing works now that the packages were updated.

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JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Gnome Keyboard Properties invalid pointer

I updated gnome-applets, so the weather applet should work indeed

The gnome-keyboard-properties thingy was a bug in libxklavier 1.0.4 which returns a static declared variable as a pointer, which breaks with the new glibc. Fixed that with a patch kindly grabbed from gentoo CVS

im_ka

Member

Registered: 2004-03-07

Posts: 118

Re: Gnome Keyboard Properties invalid pointer

I keep getting

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb74ae9a0 ***

everytime I try to run gnome-keyboard-properties.

i have the same problem. fresh install.

EDIT: downgrading to current glibc did the trick.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Gnome Keyboard Properties invalid pointer

But you still have a problem. What version of libxklavier do you have?