[COLUG] glibc error

[Matt Rolf]

Yes, that's exactly what it is.  I've seen the same thing on our Red Hat AS servers when dealing with big greps.  I think it has to do with the specific version shipping with AS & ES.  I'm not sure, but I think our programmer patched a server or two. I will ask.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:29:15 -0400
Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:

> While trying to run a simple grep, I received this error:
> 
> [root at comp1 abaqus]# grep -ri mp_mpirun_path_native 6.6-3/*
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal):
> 0x0000000000622420 ***
> Aborted
> 
> Our friend Google produced the following links:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=420885
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-05/1600.html
> The first states "most likely a software bug trying to write beyond
> array bounds".  Might I have hit against a bug in grep?
> 
> The server has 4 dual-core CPUs with 16GB RAM, running Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux AS.
> 
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