xfce4-panel question

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Using:

Xfce 4 Desktop Environment
version 4.2.3.2 (Xfce 4.2)

On slackware/current.

Starting xfce4 produces no panel and the following error message:

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0840cc20 ***
Aborted

Workaround:

MALLOC_CHECK_=1 xfce4-panel

Which produces a panel and the following output:

~$ malloc: using debugging hooks
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0841c090 ***
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0841bf20 ***
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0841bf68 ***

Is this a problem here only; or a problem with Xfce4?

Any solutions available?  These are my glibc packages:

:~$ ls -a /var/log/packages/ | grep glibc
glibc-2.3.6-i486-3
glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-3
glibc-profile-2.3.6-i486-3
glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-3
glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-3

Rinaldi
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