From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 23:48:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14777 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 23:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14770 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 23:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA24767; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:18:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980512161821.K20153@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:18:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Adrian Goins , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: realloc() error - cryptic little thing References: <19980511230348.52278@arces.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980511230348.52278@arces.net>; from Adrian Goins on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 11:03:48PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 May 1998 at 23:03:48 -0600, somebody purporting to be Adrian Goins wrote: > just went through the archives of the mailing list and saw all of the > requests to get a stack trace on a coredump from inetd with this > 'realloc() junk pointer' thing. > > mine was reproducable until i went into the src tree and recompiled inetd. > after reinstalling it and killing/restarting my inetd, it went away. There's a bug in inetd. It seems to be related to running low on swap, but I haven't been able to pinpoint it yet. You don't need to recompile inetd, just restarting it will clear up the problem. If anybody has this problem, please contact me *before* restarting it. I'd really like to find out where it happens. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message