Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:45:24 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junk pointer in realloc() ? Message-ID: <20000727174524.E59315@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1538517957.20000727011508@home.com> References: <1538517957.20000727011508@home.com>
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Ben Williams wrote: > I ran across something a little odd this evening when telnet'ing to my > "venerable" (2.2.5-RELEASE) system. > > --------------------terminal copy-n-paste-------------------- > $ telnet core > Trying 208.150.25.3... > Connected to core.instantemail.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. > --------------------terminal copy-n-paste-------------------- > > What does this inetd line mean? It means someone did realloc(some_pointer, some_size) in inetd and some_pointer wasn't a valid pointer. That's basically rephrasing the error message, so I might not be being too helpful here. :-) I'll I can suggest is you upgrade that machine at least to 2.2-STABLE if you don't want a more major upgrade than that. If you don't even want to do that, you could check out src/usr.sbin/inetd from RELENG_2_2 and just rebuild inetd. That still might not fix it, I think some more bugs like this in inetd have been fixed since RELENG_2_2, and using a more recent inetd probably wouldn't work on RELENG_2_2. (You could try it though, at your own risk. I'd pick the RELENG_3 inetd so you don't get IPv6 stuff involved anywhere.) The other fix is to use ssh instead of telnet. ;-) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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