Debugger fault at startup.

[Michael Richter]

So, for the first time I find myself having to fire up the debugger in
Erlang.  Following the user manual, I do this:

$ erl

Erlang R14B (erts-5.8.1) [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [rq:2]
> [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:true]


> Eshell V5.8.1  (abort with ^G)

1> debugger:start().

beam.smp: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr)
> (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct
> malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >=
> (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk,
> fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) -
> 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) ==
> 0)' failed.

                                Aborted

$


I don't even know where to begin here.  Is there any expert on the
debugger's inner workings that knows both what that means and what can be
done about it?

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