Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:23:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: monachus@arces.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: realloc() error - cryptic little thing Message-ID: <19980513082305.E20153@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805122027.NAA03217@tao.thought.org>; from Gary Kline on Tue, May 12, 1998 at 01:27:37PM -0700 References: <19980512161821.K20153@freebie.lemis.com> <199805122027.NAA03217@tao.thought.org>
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On Tue, 12 May 1998 at 13:27:37 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > 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 not sure I understand this statement. BTW, why do you choose a German environ? > 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. It's irritating rather than dangerous. Since it's completely within inetd, it's not going to affect the rest of the system much, but it makes it difficult to establish connections. 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
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