SvenP Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Hey there i had problems with Houdini crashing on different newer Linux distros with the error message *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: . This seems to be of newer glibc versions doing more strict mem checking. For those that happen to run into the same problem heres a solution : start houdini with MALLOC_CHECK_=1 hmaster this forces glibc to report the error but dont kill houdini . This way h runs fine over here Sven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas.waldinger Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 i got the same error message, when using newer ati drivers. running older ones solved the problem here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Hey SvenP, can you tell whether the error is happening in Houdini or actually in the OpenGL driver itself? For example, running it under under gdb and then looking at the backtrace when it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenP Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 If you can give me a short explanation on how to get a backtrace i will do my best . For now if i run houdini through gdb it crashes directly with the glibc error and i dont get any new informations . Sven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 If it crashes back out to the gdb prompt, type "backtrace". It should give you a list of the things that are running at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenP Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 Problem solved. I will never ever again buy an ATI card Sven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 How was it solved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenP Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 I bought another card but this time from Nvidia . Sven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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