[libvirt] Error in virt-install

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Mar 10 09:53:34 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:16:26AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:21:25PM +0000, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
> > 
> > Starting install...
> > *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid next size (fast): 
> > 0x0936a1b8 ***
> > ======= Backtrace: =========                                                            
> > /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6[0x1e0906]                                                  
> > /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x1e3e30]                                      
> > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(virFree+0x24)[0x8eb4e4]                                           
> > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0x94793c]                                                         
> > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0x93abf1]                                                         
> > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(virDomainLookupByUUID+0xb7)[0x8fda77]                             
> > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(virDomainLookupByUUIDString+0x17f)[0x8ffbaf]                      
> > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-
> > packages/libvirtmod.so(libvirt_virDomainLookupByUUIDString+0x6d)[0xfa349d]
> 
>   Yes I'm seeing this too on 0.6.1 on RHEL-5.3, I'm trying to chase it
> down, it's a bit hard to find out where the memory corruption occurs.

I guess the key is to run under GDB with -debuginfo installed so we get
a complete stack trace - the 2 missing symbols between virDomainLookupByUUID
and virFree will be the key to finding this...

Daniel
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