MacOS – Terminal – Crash at opening – pointer being freed was not allocated

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I have an issue with my terminal since the installation of El Capitan.
Every time i'm opening my terminal, this message appears and prevent me to using my terminal correctly :

login(9493,0x7fff72214000) malloc: *** error for object
0x7fab5a718cc0: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

What i've tried :

  • delete com.apple.terminal.plist from the ~/Library/Preferences
  • Restore disk permission via Onyx and Clean My Mac 3 (Since OSX disk repair is not available anymore)

So far no luck, also i have to mention that for a short time i've disabled SIP (but re-enabled since).

Anyone have this similar issue ?

Thanks for the help !

Edit :

My ~/.profile

# MacPorts Installer addition on 2012-01-29_at_15:38:51: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.


# PEP 370 PATH added by PyPM on 2012-05-10 22:03:33.635293
export PATH=/Users/GeR/Library/Python/2.7/bin:$PATH

##
# Your previous /Users/GeR/.profile file was backed up as /Users/GeR/.profile.macports-saved_2012-08-21_at_22:10:48
##

# MacPorts Installer addition on 2012-08-21_at_22:10:48: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.

My ~/.bash_profile

export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS="gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad"
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
# ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace

# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend

# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000

# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize

# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"

# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
    debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
    xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac

# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes

if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
    if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
    # We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
    # (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
    # a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
    color_prompt=yes
    else
    color_prompt=
    fi
fi

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
    test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
    alias ls='ls --color=auto -lah'
    #alias dir='dir --color=auto'
    #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'

    alias grep='grep --color=auto'
    alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
    alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi

# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'

# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
#    . /etc/bash_completion
#fi


PS1='\
\[\033[00m\][\
\[\033[31m\]\u\
\[\033[00m\]@\
\[\033[35m\]\h\
\[\033[00m\]:\
\[\033[34m\]\w\
\[\033[00m\]]\
\[\033[00m\]\$\
 '


##
# Your previous /Users/GeR/.bash_profile file was backed up as /Users/GeR/.bash_profile.macports-saved_2012-12-17_at_23:43:55
##

# MacPorts Installer addition on 2012-12-17_at_23:43:55: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.

Best Answer

I ran into this the other day. I couldn't get Disk Utility either because it was also crashing.

I had to reboot into Recovery Mode for it to work. I know you are on a later version, but there's a possibility it's still in Recovery Mode or there might be an alternative for fixing drive permissions there.

For users who don't know how to get to Recovery Mode:

Restart while holding CMD ⌘+R during boot

This is different than another question on SO because of your Mac version, but you might want to post your solution there if you find one. Also the version of ONYX they were using was Onyx 3.1.3 and it's supposed to work on 10.6 or later.