Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Bison crashing with memory error:
"bison: double free or corruption (!prev): ..."

After a Ubuntu upgrade I had bison constantly crashing with the following error message:


*** glibc detected *** bison: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000000e139c0 ***

This blog post provided a solution. Simply type the following on the terminal:
sudo apt-get install bison
It seems that I accidentally had the bison++ package installed instead of bison.

I would also suggest:
sudo apt-get install flex
Since I was missing that package as well.

1 comment:

  1. This worked for me! Thank you very much, would never have guessed I had the wrong package installed.

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