On 2010-03-09 13:15 +0100, VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN wrote: > On 03/09/2010 01:06 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-03-09 10:29 +0100, eric2.vale...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: >> >> >>> On 03/09/2010 10:18 AM, VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> Something along symlinks:malloc assert failed and a absolutely >>>>> unreadable formula. Note that compiling the same tree with a level >>>>> link less (I now have a symlink for /scratch were previously I had >>>>> a real mounted fs was working. >>>>> >>>> Note that if there is a malloc/free problem, using valgrind could >>>> potentially highlight where in the debian version... >>>> >> This might be useful, but it is you who has to do it since I suspect >> that the problem is not easily reproducible by me or anyone else. >> > That's why I suggested to ignore the description and simply take the > new version.
I will do that anyway (might take some time to find a sponsor, though), but I would also like to understand the problem. In case it isn't clear: this assertion error is very weird and might just be a symptom of a problem that has nothing to do with the symlinks package. Could be a bug in libc6, the kernel or your hardware. There has been a similar report in bug #566947¹, except that that bug occurred on rather exotic hardware. > No. I have a working and already proposed a way to fix it. If there's something to be fixed I would like to know what it is in the first place. The only function that calls malloc() has not changed at all between 1.2 and 1.4. > If you want > to know if the bug is in the original 1.2 or in the debian specific > patches, You can packages 1.4 with all the fixes and I will retest it. As I said, the problem may actually be elsewhere. Anyway, I found indeed a bug in my patch for #61140², but I find it hard to imagine how that could lead to a malloc assertion error. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566947 ² http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=61140 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
