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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xperfmon++ problem (again)
Date: 19 Jun 1997 11:33:27 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <339D9548.7B07@nospam.com>,
Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com> writes:
> J Wunsch wrote:
>>
>> Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry. I was doing this from memory. The message was
>> >
>> > Error: Cannot perform realloc
>>
>> Well, i was checking all ``Cannot'' messages in the source, and none
>> didn't come close to what you've mentioned.
>>
>> Of course, there's a chance that it's a message from some X11 library.
>> Sorry for not being more helpful, but all i can say is that it works
>> for me (and used to work all the time).
>>
>> --
>> cheers, J"org
>>
>> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>
> I did the following:
>
> [pozzo:/usr/home/mefoster] ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xperfmon++
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xperfmon++:
> -lXaw.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.1 (0x8022000)
> -lXt.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 (0x8058000)
> -lXmu.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 (0x8099000)
> -lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 (0x80a9000)
> -lkvm.2 => /usr/lib/libkvm.so.2.0 (0x813f000)
> -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x8143000)
> [pozzo:/usr/home/mefoster]
> [pozzo:/usr/home/mefoster] strings /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 | grep
> realloc
> realloc
> _realloc
> [pozzo:/usr/home/mefoster] strings /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 | grep
> perform
> Cannot perform %s
> [pozzo:/usr/home/mefoster]
>
> I'm sort of new to FreeBSD, and not very expert at unix debugging, but
> I will keep looking into it and submit a problem report if I find
> anything.
Ouch. I just built XFree86-3.3, and I'm now getting this from knews.
I rebuilt knews too - no change.
It happens just after I press the post key !!!!!!
This is on a RELENG_2_2 machine built June 15. Even setting
/etc/malloc.conf to RAD doesn't yield any results - somethings
lying - realloc didn't fail ! I'll post any findings.
Here goes again *cringe*
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !