Something similar happened to me twice, also when ps was executed in a cron job:
*** glibc detected *** /bin/ps: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08080348 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dddaf5] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x9c)[0xb7ddf3ac] /bin/ps[0x8049af2] /bin/ps[0x804a735] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7d897a5] /bin/ps[0x8049401] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-0805b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 96404 /bin/ps 0805b000-0805c000 rwxp 00012000 08:05 96404 /bin/ps 0805c000-0809d000 rwxp 0805c000 00:00 0 [heap] b7b00000-b7b21000 rwxp b7b00000 00:00 0 b7b21000-b7c00000 ---p b7b21000 00:00 0 b7c80000-b7caa000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401624 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7caa000-b7cab000 rwxp 00029000 08:05 401624 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7cc5000-b7cce000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401896 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so b7cce000-b7ccf000 r-xp 00008000 08:05 401896 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so b7ccf000-b7cd0000 rwxp 00009000 08:05 401896 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so b7cd0000-b7cd9000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401923 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so b7cd9000-b7cda000 r-xp 00008000 08:05 401923 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so b7cda000-b7cdb000 rwxp 00009000 08:05 401923 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so b7cdb000-b7cee000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401909 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so b7cee000-b7cef000 r-xp 00012000 08:05 401909 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so b7cef000-b7cf0000 rwxp 00013000 08:05 401909 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so b7cf0000-b7cf2000 rwxp b7cf0000 00:00 0 b7cf2000-b7cf8000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401869 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so b7cf8000-b7cf9000 r-xp 00006000 08:05 401869 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so b7cf9000-b7cfa000 rwxp 00007000 08:05 401869 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so b7cfa000-b7d1b000 rwxp b7cfa000 00:00 0 b7d1b000-b7d1c000 ---p b7d1b000 00:00 0 b7d1c000-b7d72000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1210089 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive b7d72000-b7d73000 rwxp b7d72000 00:00 0 b7d73000-b7eae000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401841 /lib/libc-2.9.so b7eae000-b7eb0000 r-xp 0013a000 08:05 401841 /lib/libc-2.9.so b7eb0000-b7eb1000 rwxp 0013c000 08:05 401841 /lib/libc-2.9.so b7eb1000-b7eb4000 rwxp b7eb1000 00:00 0 b7eb4000-b7ec2000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401609 /lib/libproc-3.2.8.so b7ec2000-b7ec3000 rwxp 0000e000 08:05 401609 /lib/libproc-3.2.8.so b7ec3000-b7ed5000 rwxp b7ec3000 00:00 0 b7eee000-b7ef1000 rwxp b7eee000 00:00 0 b7ef1000-b7ef2000 r-xp b7ef1000 00:00 0 [vdso] b7ef2000-b7f0e000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 401878 /lib/ld-2.9.so b7f0e000-b7f0f000 r-xp 0001b000 08:05 401878 /lib/ld-2.9.so b7f0f000-b7f10000 rwxp 0001c000 08:05 401878 /lib/ld-2.9.so bfce3000-bfcf8000 rw-p bfce3000 00:00 0 [stack] Signal 6 (ABRT) caught by ps (procps version 3.2.8). Please send bug reports to <feedb...@lists.sf.net> or <alb...@users.sf.net> -- http://miki.menek.one.pl m...@menek.one.pl Gadu-gadu: 2128279 Mobile: +48607345846 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
