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> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Dallaire > Sent: Friday, 19 May, 2006 14:11 > > I got this error when commiting binary files : > > Checking in a.gif; > /tmp/repository/tests_cvsnt/a.gif,v <-- a.gif > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7ceadc7 *** > cvs [commit aborted]: received abort signal This was discussed on the list back in February. See: http://www.cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt/2006-February/023745.html There is probably a bug in the CVSNT server, possibly a duplicate free, in some circumstances, which is triggering the automatic heap validation code in newer versions of glibc. (It's also possible that this is a bug in some library that CVSNT calls, or in glibc itself, though that's less likely.) If this is, in fact, just a duplicate free, then with this version of glibc it's probably safe to suppress the heap-error-abort behavior, as described in the message linked to above. glibc will still note that the free is invalid and take no action. However, the bug should be found and fixed, since it could produce a corrupt repository file when running under C library implementations that don't detect and suppress dup-free. (There are other possible causes of this error, such as passing free a pointer that used to point to a malloc'd area but was changed during processing and now points inside it. That's also a relatively common error, though more so in C than in C++.) -- Michael Wojcik Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus