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From: Philippe Charnier <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help interpreting xautolock error messages...
Date: 8 Jun 1997 01:33:00 +0200
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Jack <harpoMARX@javanet.com> writes:
> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.0 and Xfree86 3.1.2. I start xautolock in
> ~/.xinitrc. It works fine except for that I see the following message
> when X loads:
> xautolock in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense
Look at the malloc man pages for a description. Turn on malloc debugging
(ln -s 'AJ' /etc/malloc.conf) and try to find the problem. A bug in
xautolock is to be suspected.
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