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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:40:22 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com>
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@freebsddiary.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page.
Message-ID:  <20000411154021.T4381@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000411171433.lnb@freebsdsystems.com>; from lnb@freebsdsystems.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:14:33PM -0400
References:  <200004112018.IAA04193@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> <XFMail.000411171433.lnb@freebsdsystems.com>

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> On 11-Apr-00 Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 11 Apr 00, at 13:37, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> >> * Dan Langille <dan@freebsddiary.org> [000411 13:35] wrote:
> >> > The following type of mail message is arriving on a regular basis.  They 
> >> > are related to each cron job that starts up.
> >> > 
> >> >  Date sent:        Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:55:01 +1200 (NZST)
> >> >  From:             root (Cron Daemon)
> >> >  To:               root
> >> >  Subject:          Cron <root@ducky> /usr/libexec/atrun
> >> > 
> >> >  CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page.
> >> > 
> >> > I can't see anything in /var/log/messages related to this.
> >> > 
> >> > Coincidentally (or not), the box rebooted itself yesterday.  Any clues for
> >> > me please?
> >> 
> >> Not without more information, like... what version of FreeBSD you're
> >> running amongst other things. :)
> > 
> > Damn.  I must not send question first thing in the morning.  Thanks.
> > 
> ># uname -a
> > FreeBSD ducky.nz.freebsd.org 3.3-19991207-SNAP FreeBSD 3.3-
> > 19991207-SNAP #0: Mon Jan 31 19:23:58 NZDT 2000     
> > root@ducky.nz.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/DUCKY33S  i386
> > 
> > No build worlds have been done lately.  No new software added lately.  

* Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> [000411 14:40] wrote:
> Hey JM,
> when you get the answer let me know. I had same damn problem. It is gone now,
> but I don't know why it came and why it left. I looked at man malloc, however I
> can't remember if I did anything from that page.

Ugh, I can't find the delta in CVS but I remeber some problem that
cropped up with cron from around that date, my best suggetion is
to update to 3.4-stable where i'm pretty sure it has been corrected.

-Alfred




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