diff --git a/src/mu-util.c b/src/mu-util.c
index 25ece159..49471855 100644
--- a/src/mu-util.c
+++ b/src/mu-util.c
@@ -158,14 +158,18 @@ mu_util_init_system (void)
 	setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 	
 	/* on FreeBSD, it seems g_slice_new and friends lead to
-	 * segfaults. So we shut if off */
-#ifdef 	__FreeBSD__
+	 * segfaults. Same for MacOS. We cannot easily debug what is
+	 * going on there (no access to such a system), so all we can
+	 * do is add a lame fallback -> we let g_slice_* use normal
+	 * malloc
+	 */
+#ifndef __linux__
 	if (!g_setenv ("G_SLICE", "always-malloc", TRUE)) {
 		g_critical ("cannot set G_SLICE");
 		return FALSE;
 	}
-	MU_WRITE_LOG("setting G_SLICE to always-malloc");
-#endif /*__FreeBSD__*/
+	/* g_debug ("setting G_SLICE to always-malloc"); */
+#endif /*!__linux__*/
 
 	g_type_init ();