Pete's Log: i rule!
Entry #870, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
hahahahaha! take it, debian! I have defeated your cunning plans against me. realloc appears to have finally returned to a stable state. To do so, I had to fight an epic struggle. I had to remove a plethora of packages. Then I had to download the debconf .dsc file and install, by hand, all the packages it depended on for running and compiling. Then I had to compile a debconf .deb from source (apt-get source debconf --compile) and then install that. Then I was able to reinstall the rest of my system. I am now able to, even after a reboot, start x and enlightenment, compile and run gnome and opengl code, and run emacs. So all seems to be right with the world again.