This problem has been observed on systems running Linux with the environment variable, MALLOC_CHECK_, set to 2.
Set the environment variable, MALLOC_CHECK_ to 0. Run one of the following commands:
For Bourne shell:
MALLOC_CHECK_=0; export MALLOC_CHECK_ |
For bash shell:
export MALLOC_CHECK_=0 |
For csh, tcsh shell:
setenv MALLOC_CHECK_ 0 |