From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 19 16:08:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15577 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:08:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.NL.net (ns.NL.net [193.78.240.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA15568 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benst@terminus.stuyts.nl) Received: from stuyts by ns.NL.net (5.65b/NLnet1.3) id AA03493; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:06:39 +0100 Received: from daneel.stuyts.nl (daneel.stuyts.nl [193.78.231.7]) by terminus.stuyts.nl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA11898 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:00:04 +0100 (MET) Received: (from benst@localhost) by daneel.stuyts.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03715 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:59:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199711192359.AAA03715@daneel.stuyts.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Ben Stuyts Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 00:59:15 +0100 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cnews expire problem, probably awk/malloc related Reply-To: ben@stuyts.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To follow up on my own question: On Wed, 19 Nov 97, Ben Stuyts wrote: > 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. > ...etc I replaced /usr/bin/awk (which is v3.0.3) with the one (2.15p5) on the latest snapshot cd and the problems seems to have gone away. I guess this means that the new awk in -current isn't up to snuff yet. Thank you very much to Walnut Creek for JIT delivery of the 2.2.5 and 3.0 cd's today. B-) Ben