Signal 6's with ruby apps such as portupgrade and pkg

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Monday, January 12, 2004 18:32:30 -0800 Edwin Culp 
<edwinlculp at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, January 12, 2004 14:15:34 -0800 Doug
>> White
>> <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Edwin Culp wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm seeing signal 6's  with ruby apps such as
>> pkgdb
>> >> and portupgrade also with gaim-0.75, mkisofs.
>> I'm
>> >> seeing signal 11's with kdm.  This is with
>> today's
>> >> world and kernel.  I also got a signal 15 on
>> syslogd
>> >> but I was able to start it without a problem
>> after the
>> >> machine came up to multiuser.
>> >
>> > Sig15 is pretty normal on a shutdown as its the
>> normal SIGTERM.  Sig6 is
>> > SIGABRT and is usually caused by a serious (but
>> detected) program problem.
>> > Sig11 is more serious, usually a program bug, but
>> can be caused by bad
>> > memory or system temperature issues.
>> FWIW, I upgraded (with portupgrade) gaim from
>> 0.74_3(IIRC) to 0.75, and
>> started getting SIGABRT/SIGSEGV (SIG 6/SIG 11) from
>> it.
>>
>> Joe Marcus Clarke had me:
>>
>> ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf
>>
>> which seems to get around a malloc(3) bug in gaim
>> 0.75.
>>
>> Just my $0.02.
>
> Thanks, Larry.  It worked for me.  I have no idea why
> but I did a quick check with vnc and it worked.  That
> is what it's all about :-)
It sets some malloc(3) debugging flags.  read the malloc(3) man page.

LER

>
> Thanks again,
>
> ed
>
>>
>> LER
>>
>>
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Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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