Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Maurer <mwmaurer@mtu.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "free():" errrors (fwd) Message-ID: <199810081538.LAA05699@pace1.cts.mtu.edu>
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I know Patrick Gardella said this.....
>
> Last year Doug White asked if anyone could provide a app that consistently
> reproduces the "junk pointer" problem. (Sue Blake summarized what she found in
> the mailing list archives on 02-May-1998)
>
> I am getting them almost non stop recently in two applications. They are not
> the same bug mentioned in the pr-database - kern/6858 (I don't think), but may
> be related. These are the two I get all the time:
>
> free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
> free(): warning: page is already free.
>
> It happens in xmysqladmin 0.4.4 and licq 0.42 daily (hourly?).
>
> It seems to be harmless, but is annoying. The apps don't crash, for sure.
>
> I am running 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 12 04:48:42 EDT 1998.
Taking a chance that this was not summarized in the archives, I'm seeing
workman give that eror constantly. Again, nothing happens, but it is
annoying.
I am runnint 2.2.7-STABLE as well...
--
Mark Maurer markm@dct.com Programmer: Digital Magic Interactive
mwmaurer@mtu.edu Senior, Michigan Tech University
"The OOP folk think they are about to inherit the world, while I am becoming
increasingly convinced they are becoming obsolete" -- Bob Cringely
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