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Date:      Sat, 08 Feb 1997 17:29:36 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Make world of Current dies with weird errors. 
Message-ID:  <8301.855419376@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Feb 1997 21:27:30 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970207212402.1098A-100000@why> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970207212402.1098A-100000@why>, Andrew Herdman writes
:
>When i'm doing a make world, i get the following errors.
>
>make cleandir
>
><cleaning stuff going on here>
>
>===> lib/libtelnet
>make in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
>make in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
>make in free(): warning: chunk is already free.

Off the top of my head I'd say RAM/cache HW problem, but I have heard
other reports about the same phenomena enough to find it slightly
worrisome, and I have not been able to reproduce the problem here.

If you can reliably reproduce this, and have time & courage, here's
how to proceed:

	in your chroot environment:

		ln -s A /etc/malloc.conf
		reproduce the problem
		you should now have a make.core file somewhere.
		gdb /usr/src/.../make make.core
		find the problem
		make a patch
		send-pr

The actual complaint from the program means that some piece of memory
that was allocated with malloc is freed twice.  The fact that it's 
called a "chunk" tells that it is <= 2048 bytes long.

If you can get a stacktrace, you will find the pointer to this piece
of memory in the topmost call to free() or realloc().

Try to see if you can compile a make with "-g" and still reproduce
the problem.

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