*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption RedHat 4 AS

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:57:15 +0100, Bhat, Ajit wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> We are getting core dumps at exit on Linux 4 AS, Same application runs
> successfully on Linux 4 ES
> 
> The error we receive on Linux 4 AS is -
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev)
> 
> Following link discusses work around
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...-notes/as-x86/
> 
> wondering if this is a bug in glibc. How do we resolve this? Is it by
> upgrading glibc?

It is much more likely a bug in the application.
Show the stacktrace.