xfdesktop crashin with glibc error

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Nov 11 05:12:52 CET 2006


Kim Klinkhamer wrote:
> Just upgraded to a 64bit box (clean linux install), and can't get
> xfdesktop to run.
> 
> I've tried 4.4rc2 and 4.3.99 and both give the following error when
> starting xfdesktop
> 
> GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 4294967296 bytes
> aborting...
> 
> GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 4294967296 bytes
> aborting...
> Aborted
> 
> Any ideas?

It's possible (though unlikely) I'm doing something that's not 64-bit
clean in xfdesktop.  Please file a bug report on bugzilla.xfce.org, and
provide a gdb backtrace of where the crash is occurring, using a debug
build of xfdesktop (and preferably of libxfcegui4 and libxfce4util as well).

	-brian





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