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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:57:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901221355520.79228-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36A89532.97D035B5@partitur.se>

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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Palle Girgensohn wrote:

> I'm experiencing some strange errors with one of our workstations. I
> recently moved all of our workstations to 3.0 current as of 1998-12-18.
> Does any of this make any sense to anyone:
> 
> trumpet:~>rlogin balalaika
> netd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
> trumpet:~>telnet balalaika
> Trying 1.2.3.4...
> Connected to balalaika.partitur.se.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.

There are two separate bugs that can cause this behavior, one in
inetd and the other is the infamous "dying daemons" bug.  Both
have theoretically been fixed, recently.  Sorry I don't have
exact dates handy.

-john


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