Does your Linux 64bit version of Flash now make anonying beeping/distortion noises while playing videos? Well it turns out a recent “improvement” to glibc has caused some programs to now crash or do weird things. This is to do with an improvement of memcpy, which makes its use more strict, causing those applications that incorrectly used it to now crash.

On Debian, there is a simple a fix that allows you to use the original memcpy. You can load the application using an additional .so file:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /path/to/your/program

As I use Google Chrome when using Flash I had to do the following:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/google-chrome

but if you want to fix chrome on a system level, you can edit the Chrome Wrapper used to launch it.

sudo nano /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

add the following line

export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so"

for example

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so"

export CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA="beta"

Recently I tried TortoiseGit, a TortoiseSVN style Git client, however there were no binaries for my 64 bit windows machine. The 32 bit version found on the official site would install, but the shell extension unfortunately does not work.

So I took the law into my own hands and went and built my own version.

So here is TortoiseGIT 0.3.3.0 (64 bit) built from revision 9d3351f627b26d9555794e785cf8bbae22155f12. There is now a newer offical version available at: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/downloads/list

Hopefully 64bit builds will be available from the official site in the future.

Disclaimer, I haven’t fully tested this app, and I suspect some features of the 64 bit build might be broken. Regardless I’ve been able to use at least the basic features of this version.