I have an Nvidia card on my Linux desktop. During boot-up, when the
start-up scripts run nvidia-config-display, they get an error message (see
below). Does anyone know how this can be fixed?

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cmd nvidia-config-display
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x003f124a
***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb162a1]
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so[0x3eba57]
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so[0x3e81ab]
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so[0x3e40a5]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0[0x6d4f391]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyDict_SetItem+0x81)[0x6d520a1]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0[0x6d273c0]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_SetAttr+0x90)[0x6d55410]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x2467)[0x6dacfc7]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x53ad)[0x6daff0d]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x7b9)[0x6db0d79]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0[0x6d3fb87]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_Call+0x5c)[0x6d1372c]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0[0x6d29284]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_Call+0x5c)[0x6d1372c]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords+ 0x54)[0x6da9f14]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyInstance_New+0x75)[0x6d28a65]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_Call+0x5c)[0x6d1372c]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x3ecd)[0x6daea2d]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x7b9)[0x6db0d79]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCode+0x63)[0x6db0ed3]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0[0x6dcbeab]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyRun_FileExFlags+0x92)[0x6dcbf72]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags+0xda)[0x6dcd51a]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyRun_AnyFileExFlags+0x7a)[0x6dcddaa]
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0(Py_Main+0xb82)[0x6dda592]
/usr/bin/python(main+0x27)[0x80485c7]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xabca66]
/usr/bin/python[0x8048501]
======= Memory map: ========
00110000-00113000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 92007
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_localemodule.so
00113000-00114000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 92007
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_localemodule.so
001a8000-001ae000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 92042
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/operator.so
001ae000-001b0000 rw-p 00005000 08:02 92042
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/operator.so
001e1000-00221000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 29270
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.4
00221000-00222000 rw-p 00040000 08:02 29270
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.4
00222000-002ff000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 648
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.4
002ff000-00300000 rw-p 000dd000 08:02 648
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.4
00367000-00391000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 15596
/lib/libgcc_s-4.4.0-20090506.so.1
00391000-00392000 rw-p 00029000 08:02 15596
/lib/libgcc_s-4.4.0-20090506.so.1
003de000-003f5000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 98470
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so
003f5000-003f9000 rw-p 00016000 08:02 98470
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so
00527000-0052a000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 29291
/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2000.4
0052a000-0052b000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 29291
/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2000.4
008ff000-00906000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 268170
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_struct.so
00906000-00908000 rw-p 00006000 08:02 268170
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_struct.so
00a59000-00a79000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 15587 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
00a79000-00a7a000 r--p 0001f000 08:02 15587 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
00a7a000-00a7b000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 15587 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
00a7d000-00a80000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 29259 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
00a80000-00a81000 r--p 00002000 08:02 29259 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
00a81000-00a82000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 29259 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
00a84000-00a9a000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 29272 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00a9a000-00a9b000 ---p 00016000 08:02 29272 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00a9b000-00a9c000 r--p 00016000 08:02 29272 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00a9c000-00a9d000 rw-p 00017000 08:02 29272 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00a9d000-00a9f000 rw-p 00a9d000 00:00 0
00aa6000-00c11000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 29251 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
00c11000-00c13000 r--p 0016b000 08:02 29251 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
00c13000-00c14000 rw-p 0016d000 08:02 29251 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
00c14000-00c17000 rw-p 00c14000 00:00 0
00c19000-00c3f000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 29268 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
00c3f000-00c40000 r--p 00025000 08:02 29268 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
00c40000-00c41000 rw-p 00026000 08:02 29268 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
00c62000-00c63000 r-xp 00c62000 00:00 0 [vdso]
00e23000-00e25000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 92002
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_functools.so
00e25000-00e26000 rw-p 00001000 08:02 92002
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_functools.so
00f39000-00f3d000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 92050
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/stropmodule.so
00f3d000-00f3f000 rw-p 00004000 08:02 92050
/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/stropmodule.so
06cec000-06e38000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 24502
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
06e38000-06e63000 rw-p 0014c000 08:02 24502
/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
06e63000-06e6c000 rw-p 06e63000 00:00 0
07569000-0756b000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 22775 /lib/libutil-2.10.1.so
0756b000-0756c000 r--p 00001000 08:02 22775 /lib/libutil-2.10.1.so
0756c000-0756d000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 22775 /lib/libutil-2.10.1.so
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 30030 /usr/bin/python
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 08:02 30030 /usr/bin/python
084a5000-085a6000 rw-p 084a5000 00:00 0 [heap]
b7ca7000-b7ea7000 r--p 00000000 08:02 26667
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
b7ea7000-b7f2c000 rw-p b7ea7000 00:00 0
bfbe5000-bfbfc000 rw-p bffe9000 00:00 0 [stack]
Aborted