stumped....

[Gerald Carter]

Forgot to include the system information.  This 
just started and I cannot figure out what changed.

RedHat 6.2 (with some updates)

	glibc-2.1.3-15
	glibc-devel-2.1.3-15
	glib-1.2.8-0_helix_1
	compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.2
	glib10-1.0.6-6
	glib-devel-1.2.8-0_helix_1

$ uname -a 
  Linux queso 2.2.14-5.0.14 #1 \
  Sun Mar 26 13:11:01 PST 2000 i686 unknown


Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> Has anyone every seen a call to malloc() result in a
> seg fault?  Very confused...
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x4015ed60, nb=5688) at malloc.c:2814
> #1  0x400c95ce in __libc_malloc (bytes=5680) at malloc.c:2696
> #2  0x80a15b5 in prs_init (ps=0xbfffe940, size=5680, align=4 '\004',
> io=0) at rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:83
> #3  0x8054fa2 in spoolss_closeprinter (hnd=0xbfffe990) at
> rpc_client/cli_spoolss.c:474
> #4  0x80506ed in cmd_spoolss_open_printer_ex (info=0x81139e0, argc=1,
> argv=0x8146568) at rpcclient/cmd_spoolss.c:287
> #5  0x804ae9b in do_command (info=0x81139e0, line=0xbfffeef4 "spoolopen
> Apple") at lib/cmd_interp.c:359
> #6  0x804b24c in process (info=0x81139e0, cmd_str=0x0) at
> lib/cmd_interp.c:492
> #7  0x804ca29 in command_main (argc=5, argv=0xbffff974) at
> lib/cmd_interp.c:1348
> #8  0x804aa35 in main (argc=5, argv=0xbffff974) at
> rpcclient/rpcclient.c:42
> 
> The actual offending line is here......
> 
> #2  0x80a15b5 in prs_init (ps=0xbfffe940, size=5680, align=4 '\004',
> io=0) at rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:83
> 83      if((ps->data_p = (char *)malloc((size_t)size)) == NULL) {
> 
> jerry
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