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From: Ben Stuyts <benst@terminus.stuyts.nl>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 97 22:23:38 +0100
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Subject: Cnews expire problem, probably awk/malloc related
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Dear net,

Yesterday I've ugraded a system from 2.2-Stable to 3.0-Current with SMP. It  
runs Cnews (cnews-cr.g) from the packages collection. Today it started having  
problems while running doexpire. At the end of that it runs upact. I get these  
messages:

awk in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
awk in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
awk in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
awk in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
awk in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
... repeated many times
awk in free(): warning: page is already free.
awk in free(): warning: page is already free.
awk in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
awk in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
... etc
/usr/local/news/cnewsbin/expire/upact: errors in active.tmp -- aborting
line 761: "alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt" is non-numeric
line 761: field 3 is zero
line 762: "nl.sport.algemeen" is non-numeric
line 762: field 3 is zero
...etc
line 919: "comp.security.pgp.test" is non-numeric
line 919: field 3 is zero

This looks like an awk or malloc problem. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ben