On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> First, thanks for the great piece of software!
>
> I am a happy user of Shapely since a few years, but since I upgraded
> my server to Ubuntu 9.10 I notice the following message everytime I my
> Python application ends:
>
> *** glibc detected *** python: double free or corruption (!prev):
> 0x00000000018839b0 ***
>
> Also, the process hangs and never completes. This problem is
> particularly painful when Python is run as a CGI within Apache, as
> HTTP requests will never complete.  Otherwise on the command-line, I
> just issue a CTRL-C to stop it.
>
> Software that has changed during the Ubuntu upgrade includes:
>
>  * Python, from 2.6.2 to 2.6.4
>  * Libgeos, from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
>
> I tried to upgrade shapely from 1.0.11 to 1.0.14 with no luck.
>
> Note that I also use python-mapscript, the package that comes with
> mapserver, also using libgeos.  I verified that only one version of
> libgeos is installed and used.
>
> Here is the gdb backtrace during the hang:
>
> #0  __lll_lock_wait_private () at
> ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:97
> #1  0x00007f238c6c7b11 in _L_lock_9274 () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x00007f238c6c5741 in *__GI___libc_free (mem=0x7f238c9b5e40) at
> malloc.c:3714
> #3  0x00007f238d48ab32 in _dl_scope_free (old=0xf6e5b0) at dl-open.c:175
> #4  0x00007f238d485035 in _dl_map_object_deps (map=0x7f238d697530,
> preloads=<value optimized out>, npreloads=<value optimized out>,
> trace_mode=<value optimized out>, open_mode=<value optimized out>) at
> dl-deps.c:668
> #5  0x00007f238d48ada3 in dl_open_worker (a=<value optimized out>) at
> dl-open.c:326
> #6  0x00007f238d486386 in _dl_catch_error (objname=<value optimized
> out>, errstring=<value optimized out>, mallocedp=<value optimized
> out>, operate=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at
> dl-error.c:178
> #7  0x00007f238d48a6c7 in _dl_open (file=0x7f238c77e2ae
> "libgcc_s.so.1", mode=-2147483647, caller_dlopen=0x0, nsid=-2, argc=1,
> argv=0x18, env=0xafed90) at dl-open.c:615
> #8  0x00007f238c767c00 in do_dlopen (ptr=0x7ffff3913b10) at dl-libc.c:86
> #9  0x00007f238d486386 in _dl_catch_error (objname=<value optimized
> out>, errstring=<value optimized out>, mallocedp=<value optimized
> out>, operate=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at
> dl-error.c:178
> #10 0x00007f238c767d57 in dlerror_run (name=<value optimized out>,
> mode=<value optimized out>) at dl-libc.c:47
> #11 *__GI___libc_dlopen_mode (name=<value optimized out>, mode=<value
> optimized out>) at dl-libc.c:160
> #12 0x00007f238c7426e5 in init () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/../ia64/backtrace.c:41
> #13 0x00007f238d2687a3 in pthread_once () at
> ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_once.S:94
> #14 0x00007f238c7427e4 in *__GI___backtrace (array=<value optimized
> out>, size=64) at ../sysdeps/x86_64/../ia64/backtrace.c:79
> #15 0x00007f238c6b6cab in __libc_message (do_abort=<value optimized
> out>, fmt=<value optimized out>) at
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:168
> #16 0x00007f238c6c0dd6 in malloc_printerr (action=3,
> str=0x7f238c7827b0 "double free or corruption (!prev)", ptr=<value
> optimized out>) at malloc.c:6217
> #17 0x00007f238c6c574c in *__GI___libc_free (mem=<value optimized
> out>) at malloc.c:3716
> #18 0x00007f2384a5130b in msGEOSCleanup () from
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/_mapscript.so
> #19 0x00007f2384969fda in msCleanup () from
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/_mapscript.so
> #20 0x00000000004c2cc2 in call_ll_exitfuncs () at ../Python/pythonrun.c:1705
> #21 Py_Finalize () at ../Python/pythonrun.c:534
> #22 0x00000000004185c2 in Py_Main (argc=<value optimized out>,
> argv=<value optimized out>) at ../Modules/main.c:625
> #23 0x00007f238c669abd in __libc_start_main (main=<value optimized
> out>, argc=<value optimized out>, ubp_av=<value optimized out>,
> init=<value optimized out>, fini=<value optimized out>,
> rtld_fini=<value optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffff3914738) at
> libc-start.c:220
> #24 0x0000000000417ca9 in _start () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/elf/start.S:113
>
> I have no clue where the problem comes from, however, when I edit the
> installed python2.6/shapely/geos.py module and comment the cleanup
> code, Python does not crash anymore:
>
> def cleanup():
>    if lgeos is not None:
>        pass
>        #lgeos.finishGEOS()
>
> Any idea?  Your help will be much appreciated.

Hi Jean-Baptiste,

I suspect at-exit cleanup collision: mapscript's msCleanup is freeing
some memory allocated by libgeos and when Shapely exits, cleanup()
attempts to free that same memory. I've created a ticket in the
tracker:

http://trac.gispython.org/lab/ticket/217

If you've anything to add, please register and do so. In the
meanwhile, do not use Shapely with mapscript. Mapscript provides most
of the functionality if not such a handy API.

Cheers,

-- 
Sean
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