[Slackbuilds-users] malloc runtime error, any suggestions?

[B. Watson]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2024, phalange at komputermatrix.com wrote:

> Hi all, I'm getting a malloc() runtime error startx-ing a window manager 
> called spectrwm.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get more details on this? It seems this version of 
> spectrwm runs on other distros, like Alpine for example.
>
> I'd like to report it to the developer if it's really a bug, or patch it in 
> Slackware.

It builds and runs fine here.

Can you give us more detail? Try 'startx &> ~/x.log', and attach the
resulting x.log to a list email...

Also, are you on Slackware 15.0? Slackware-current isn't officially
supported, but if it's a problem with -current, we'd like to know.