Hi Chris,

Could you send a backtrace?
In gdb, type 'where' after the Segmentation fault.

Could you also try to run amcheck with the MALLOC_CHECK_ variable set.
For more details on it, see the man page for malloc.

export MALLOC_CHECK_=2


Jean-Louis

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:46:53PM -0800, Chris Marble wrote:
> I've been using Amanda 2.4.2p2 for several years.  Server is Linux
> 2.4.20 and clients are Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX and Tru-64.
> 
> Had a DLE that was too large so it was time for gnu tar and an exclude list.
> Installed Amanda 2.4.4b1 on the troublesome client, Linux 2.4.18, and it's
> fine there.  Installed 2.4.4b1 on the server and it won't even pass amcheck.
> Just dies with a "Segmentation fault"  So I fire up gdb:
> 
> gdb amcheck
> GNU gdb 19991004
> Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
> (gdb) run -c hmcis
> Starting program: /usr/local/pkg/amanda/sbin/amcheck -c hmcis
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x464c457f, p=0x40028a1b) at malloc.c:3049
> 3049  malloc.c: No such file or directory.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?  The one client's fine with 2.4.4b1 and it's very similar to
> the server (same hardware, same original RedHat install and the like).
> -- 
>   Chris_Marble AT hmc DOT edu - HMC UNIX Systems Manager
>   My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.

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