[libvirt-users] Segfault with ruby-libvirt 0.4.0 and libvirt 1.1.1

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:03:02PM +0200, Bertrand Paquet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have upgraded my libvirt version, and I have a crash using ruby-libvirt
> (0.4.0). The same code ruby worked well before upgrade.
> 
> ruby(92500,0x107092000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fdc03ea7658:
> pointer being freed was not allocated
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> Abort trap: 6
> 
> I'm under Mac Os, but my colleague is under Linux and have the same problem.
> 
> Any idea ?
> Any information to how diagnosis the problem ?

Running the program under valgrind is the best first step to diagnose
memory corruption problems

Daniel
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