up2date -fu fails with glibc memory corruption error "*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08b89358 ***"

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Issue

  • 'up2date -fu' fails with glibc memory corruption error "*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08b89358 ***"
  • 'up2date -fu'  returning segmentation fault
up2date[7268]: segfault at 0000002a9b76cea8 rip 000000334a072400 rsp 0000007fbfffc048 error 4 
up2date[7271]: segfault at 0000002a9b76cea8 rip 000000334a072400 rsp 0000007fbfffc048 error 4

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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