# Glibc detected \*\*\* ruby: malloc(): memory corruption:

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/glibc-detected-ruby-malloc-memory-corruption/177450>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 17, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/glibc-detected-ruby-malloc-memory-corruption/177450 "2009-10-17T14:53:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/glibc-detected-ruby-malloc-memory-corruption/177450/1 "2009-10-17T14:53:05Z")

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Thanks for the tip, but I managed to fix it.

I deleted the tarball install I made and then went with the YUM version,  
and to get around an error I was getting with libmagick2.so.2, i did the  
command:

ldconfig /usr/local/lib

and it worked ok after that