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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: aRTSd and Glib 2.16.2....
From:       David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date:       2007-03-01 22:49:46
Message-ID: 200703012249.46381.lists () astrojar ! org ! uk
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On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:20:28 David Jarvie wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:17:56 you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 03:50:39 Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 February 2007 18:34, Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:
> > > > On Monday 26 February 2007 19:22, Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:
> > > > > I need to know if there are any outstanding issues between these
> > > > > two, as I've finally gotten around to updating glib and I need to
> > > > > know if there are going to be any major complications with them.
> > > > > I'd heard previously reported by someone on the list that there
> > > > > were playback issues with that release and arts. I'd like to be
> > > > > wrong about this though.... Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > correction on glib2's version: 2.12.9. For some reason I was thinking
> > > > it was at 2.16.x....
> > >
> > > I have glib 2.12.7 and it seems to work ok. I have a weird issue with
> > > sounds playing too fast, but i haven't been bothered enough by it to
> > > even look at fixing it.
> >
> > I have Debian libglib2.0 version 2.12.4-2, and it still doesn't work with
> > aRts. I get a crash message on the terminal:
> >
> > ***MEMORY-ERROR***: [6832]: GSlice: failed to allocate 248 bytes
> > (alignment: 256): Invalid argument
> >
> > when KDE::PlayObjectFactory::mimeTypes() is called.
>
> I should have said that it's when I compile from source that I get the
> problem.

Finally, I have found out how to fix this problem. It's explained at 
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2006-May/059639.html - if 
kdelibs is built with --enable-fast-malloc=full, it clashes with Glib's 
malloc calls. The solution is either to disable that option when building 
kdelibs, or to alter Glib's allocation handling at runtime by setting an 
environment variable.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html
 
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