Problem with xmgrace in f16

[dulkancellin]

Hi everybody,

This is my first post, so apologies for the inconveniences. I've just upgraded to f16 from f15.
Now I have problems in calling xmgrace. At home directory, I have

[pablo@pampas ~]$ xmgrace
xmgrace: malloc.c:2451: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed.
Aborted

However, I just realized that doing

[pablo@pampas grace]$/usr/share/grace/xmgrace

Everything goes well.
Any idea of what's going on and how to fix the matter?

Thanks

[skytux]

Originally Posted by dulkancellin

Hi everybody,

This is my first post, so apologies for the inconveniences. I've just upgraded to f16 from f15.
Now I have problems in calling xmgrace. At home directory, I have

[pablo@pampas ~]$ xmgrace
xmgrace: malloc.c:2451: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed.
Aborted

However, I just realized that doing

[pablo@pampas grace]$/usr/share/grace/xmgrace

Everything goes well.
Any idea of what's going on and how to fix the matter?

Thanks

I have grace-5.1.22-9.fc16.x86_64 and after preupgrading from F15 to F16, it runs without any problem.

Try to reinstall it:

# yum reinstall grace

Good luck!

[dulkancellin]

Skytux,

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
I also tried removing the package to install it afresh, but it didn't work either.
I have no clue of what's going on. Hopefully, it will work after some future update.

Cheers

[nikshurt]

I checked grace in fc16 and obtained the same errors of malloc,
rpmbuild from the src package gave the same results.
Sure in fc15 grace does work without problems. The forcing including the grace from fc15 gave the same malloc error. Thus this troulbe is probably from fc16 (i386) itself. NEED THE URGENT solution!
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Sergei Trushkin

[plasmonics]

Did not find any problem here. I ran xmgrace from both the command line and the menu on F16 x86_64. No malloc problem.

[nikshurt]

if scr grace is rpmbuilded with MALLOC_CHECK_=1

xmgrace works with:
*** glibc detected *** xmgrace: malloc: top chunk is corrupt: 0x08c35fc8 ***

the current kernel 3.1.2-1.fc16.i686.PAE

[dulkancellin]

I noticed that the same problem with xmgrace had happened in f14.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...hlight=xmgrace

a) Similar message of memory allocation problem.
b) Xmgrace failed with a memory allocation error when it was called from any directory,
except when it was called directly from /usr/bin directory.
c) Problem showed up in 32bit kernel, but not in 64bit kernel.

I installed xmgrace from source following the suggestion given in #4 of the above thread,
and xmgrace worked fine.

[anonimo115]

I could run xmgrace from RPM files in fedora 16 from here:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/mageia/distr....mga2.i586.rpm

It needed a library that was downloaded from here:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandriva/dev...012.0.i586.rpm

The files were posted in:
http://rpmfind.net/

[kanato]

Yeah I have this same problem (again in F16!).

There is a bug filed on this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649917

There is a fix posted in that bug report. You have to download the source code and copy the fonts directory&files to the /usr/share/grace directory.