Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:00:44 -0700
From:      W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@pacbell.net>
To:        Neil Darlow <neil@darlow.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pointer to wrong page
Message-ID:  <3B4AB62C.42CBCEB8@pacbell.net>
References:  <20010710.7535500@ideal.darlow.co.uk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Neil Darlow wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there common cause for "warning: pointer to wrong page." errors?
> 
> I have experienced this with py-MySQLdb-0.9.0 and python-2.1 running
> on FreeBSD-i386 4.2-RELEASE with security patches.
> 
> The specific error message is:
>   python in free(): warning: pointer to wrong page.
> 
> The only thing I can point to is that python-2.1 has been built with
> support for threads but I'm not sure whether the MySQL client library
> is built thread-safe. Is this a likely cause?
> 
> Regards,
> Neil Darlow.
> 

Haven't looked at the code but sounds like something's smacking memory.

W Gerald Hicks
gehicks@pacbell.net

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3B4AB62C.42CBCEB8>