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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:43:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/12998: still inetd junk pointer too low to make sense 
Message-ID:  <199908061243.OAA00871@elbas.partitur.se>

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>Number:         12998
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       still inetd junk pointer too low to make sense
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug  6 05:50:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Palle Girgensohn
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Partitur 
>Environment:
FreeBSD sources from July 7th (STABLE). I've seen this occasionally on 
all our machines (at least ten different hardware confiurations) ever
since updating our worksataions to 3.x.

We run nfs and nis/yp, if that matters...

>Description:
$ rlogin tb303
netd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
$ telnet tb303
Trying 193.219.246.230...
Connected to tb303.partitur.se.
Escape character is '^]'.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I though this was fixed a long time ago
(mentioned in PR-kern/6858 and prposedly fixed in PR-bin/8183).
Lately, the frequency of this problem showing up has decreased,
but it still exists.

>How-To-Repeat:
It happens occasionally. I can't figure out if there's anything special
that tiggers it.
	

>Fix:
kill and restart inetd :-(	
	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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