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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!news.citenet.net!usenet From: philh@cdngateway.pe.ca (Phil Holmstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: problems with malloc and packages installation Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:44:27 GMT Organization: Canadiana Gateway Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4s0tga$3hr@cti01.citenet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.151.204.75 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I am having a problem with post configuration of packages. When I attempt to get new packages, the sysinstall list blows up with malloc errors (free (): already free chunk, and already free page). This occurs with any package I am trying to fetch. I am using a p100, 32 mb ram, quantum fb hd, 512k pipeline burst cache and an intel ethernet express pro 100b. I have heard from friends that there is a problem with the flash bios, which maybe the cause of this problem. I installed originally from the march snap issue (had to inorder to get the drivers for the ethernet card to work) and everything went fine, except it couldn't extract the packages, and I ended up getting all the binaries and source. I was running into an error about a month ago, too many open files in system, so I deleted the src directory and its contents, and I haven't gotten the error since. Could it be possible that I am now missing some stuff for the sysinstall to work? Or is still an inherent problem with the bios settings? Any solutions or possible explanations for this problem would be muchly appreciated. Phil