From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 1: 1:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A00137B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:01:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([64.172.24.59]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GG800681ZLVGF@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:00:44 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks Subject: Re: pointer to wrong page To: Neil Darlow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3B4AB62C.42CBCEB8@pacbell.net> Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010710.7535500@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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