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  1. Bug #201673
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 201673

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Anders Kvist (akv) wrote : Re: Hardy: "invalid pointer: 0xb7ef4b70" no program will start.

Someone said su worked, not here, not even bash can be started... one bricked workstation :)

$ bash

malloc: ../bash/subst.c:3472: assertion botched
free: called with unallocated block argument
Aborting...complete: usage: complete [-abcdefgjksuv] [-pr] [-o option] [-A action] [-G globpat] [-W wordlist] [-P prefix] [-S suffix] [-X filterpat] [-F function] [-C command] [name ...]

malloc: ../bash/subst.c:3472: assertion botched
free: called with unallocated block argument
Aborting...
malloc: ../bash/subst.c:3472: assertion botched
free: called with unallocated block argument
Aborting...Aborted (core dumped)