From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 08:35:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17844 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.mtu.edu (news.mtu.edu [141.219.70.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17784 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwmaurer@mtu.edu) Received: from mtu.edu (root@mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by news.mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19923 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:34:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pace1.cts.mtu.edu (pace1.cts.mtu.edu [141.219.52.51]) by mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04368 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:34:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mwmaurer@localhost) by pace1.cts.mtu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/mturelay-1.2) id LAA05699 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:38:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Maurer Message-Id: <199810081538.LAA05699@pace1.cts.mtu.edu> Subject: "free():" errrors (fwd) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:38:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know Patrick Gardella said this..... > > Last year Doug White asked if anyone could provide a app that consistently > reproduces the "junk pointer" problem. (Sue Blake summarized what she found in > the mailing list archives on 02-May-1998) > > I am getting them almost non stop recently in two applications. They are not > the same bug mentioned in the pr-database - kern/6858 (I don't think), but may > be related. These are the two I get all the time: > > free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > free(): warning: page is already free. > > It happens in xmysqladmin 0.4.4 and licq 0.42 daily (hourly?). > > It seems to be harmless, but is annoying. The apps don't crash, for sure. > > I am running 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 12 04:48:42 EDT 1998. Taking a chance that this was not summarized in the archives, I'm seeing workman give that eror constantly. Again, nothing happens, but it is annoying. I am runnint 2.2.7-STABLE as well... -- Mark Maurer markm@dct.com Programmer: Digital Magic Interactive mwmaurer@mtu.edu Senior, Michigan Tech University "The OOP folk think they are about to inherit the world, while I am becoming increasingly convinced they are becoming obsolete" -- Bob Cringely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message