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glibc package

  1. Bug #201673
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 201673

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Vikrant (vikrant82) wrote : Re: Hardy: "invalid pointer: 0xb7ef4b70" no program will start.

This was really scary. On a reboot I couldn't even get a shell in recovery mode.

"malloc: unknown:0: assertion botched
free: called with unallocated block argument
last command: sudo mount
Aborting... init: tty1 main process ended, respawning"

Anyways, people have talked about solutions here. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=722886