From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 13:40:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20383 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20310 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id NAA14590; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA03217; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:27:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199805122027.NAA03217@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: realloc() error - cryptic little thing In-Reply-To: <19980512161821.K20153@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 12, 98 04:18:21 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 13:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Cc: monachus@arces.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Greg Lehey: > 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. > Don't think it is swap-related, unless inetd does something bizarre. From my zsh on my 6x86 (256M of swap), I type % setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1 and thus far always seem the realloc() complaint. First time. On my second try, no noise. I'm running 2.2.5 there; just ordered 2.2.6 (with your book, BTW :). Something introduced this bug since 2.2-R at least. Since the 6x86 has been up for 8, 9 days I don't think this is that serious. Now that I'm networked (thanks, Doug!) the new box is going to be loaded. gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message