Comment 6 for bug 201673

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Jeffrey Baker (jwbaker) wrote : Re: Hardy: "invalid pointer: 0xb7ef4b70" no program will start.

I was able to recover my system without a reboot by installing the packages, still in the archive, of version 2.7-5ubuntu2. For whatever reason, su is able to run while sudo is not. Obviously this will only help you if you have a root password.