The gam_server process is started by Gnome 2.12, but it does not come up properly. /var/log/user.log repeats saying: Oct 18 00:29:59 localhost gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0805f6a8 *** Oct 18 00:30:03 localhost last message repeated 3 times Oct 18 00:30:05 localhost gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0805e550 *** Oct 18 00:30:08 localhost gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0805f6a8 *** Oct 18 00:30:32 localhost last message repeated 11 times Oct 18 00:30:34 localhost gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0805e550 *** Oct 18 00:30:35 localhost gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0805f6a8 *** Oct 18 00:30:36 localhost gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0805e550 *** Oct 18 00:30:41 localhost gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0805f6a8 *** Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.2.5-r2,glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib acpi acpi4linux activefilter adns aim alsa apache2 async audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bmp bonobo bzip2 bzlib cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cups curl dbus dga divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo exif fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal iconv imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 irmc java jikes jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww live lzw-tiff mad mbox mime mmx mmx2 mmxext mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozplaintext mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 msn ncurses netbeans nls nocd nptl ntplonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pda pdflib perl php png posix postgres ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang smime sockets sox speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd tetex tga tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd videos vidix vorbis win32codecs wmf xfs xine xinerama xml xml2 xosd xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
I'm also seeing that gam_server / gamin crashes all the time. Oct 18 20:08:07 blatt gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08066670 *** Oct 18 20:08:44 blatt gam_server: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x08060520 ***
In a terminal I started dvdrip and get a lot of these messages: end from FAM server connection invalid length 10794 invalid length 10794 invalid length 10794 invalid length 10794
did some quick investigating and will get back later, see this redhat bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168744
Creating a .gaminrc with content fsset nfs kernel as suggested by the RedHat bug report makes the repetitive log-messages dissappear and gam_server does not change the PID that often any more. I should add, that my $HOME is imported from a NFS server. Yet, directory content view for example in Nautilus is not updated until i explicitely request refresh (using menu or Ctrl-R).
Just as a data point, a user on IRC had this problem, and fixed it by re-emerging gamin, gnome-vfs, and nautilus.
I've added gamin-0.1.6-r1 to fix this issue, masked for now. Could someone with the problem try that and verify that it fixes it?
1.6-r1 seems to work for me! Tried several, mount/umount touch/rm actions, that surely would have crashed 1.6 without problem. Thanks!
In theory this should have been assigned to me. Anyhow, please add the patch to the redhat bug report so that it can be fixed upstream ...
This new version works for me as well. Tested with amarok, gnome-volume-manager and nautilus (which usually all killed it or at least spat out errors)
Seems to work for me too (with gnome-2.10.2 and nautilus-2.10.1-r1): Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13.4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13.4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt cups curl dbus dvd dvdr emboss encode esd firefox foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png python readline ruby sdl slang speex spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Another happy patch user. Before the patch we had crashes hundreds of time a minute!
re comment #8: It came from upstream, and has already been applied to CVS. I've unmasked the fixed gamin.
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