[kismac] R206 build malloc errors followed by crash

  • From: Paul Jacoby <pej@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:24:36 -0500

First off, thanks for the R206 build.

Unfortunately, it's not happy on my iBook G3/600 under OSX 10.4.8. I installed it on top of R190, keeping the old prefs. Upon launching R206 I see this in the console.log:

KisMAC(299,0x1849e00) malloc: *** error for object 0x4806b10: double free
KisMAC(299,0x1849e00) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
2006-10-14 21:15:01.907 KisMAC[299] KisMAC startup done. Build from Oct 13 2006 15:08:17. Homedir is /Applications/kismac-r206/ KisMAC.app. NSAppKitVersionNumber: 824.410000
2006-10-14 21:15:01.909 KisMAC[299] Registering with Growl
2006-10-14 21:15:02.208 GrowlHelperApp[88] 2006-10-14 21:15:02 -0500 KisMAC registered
2006-10-14 21:15:02.641 GrowlHelperApp[88] 2006-10-14 21:15:02 -0500 Growl: Application re-registered (KisMAC registered) - Priority 0
2006-10-14 21:15:04.063 KisMAC[299] Connecting to gpsd (127.0.0.1)
2006-10-14 21:15:04.064 KisMAC[299] GPS started successfully in GPSd mode.
KisMAC(299,0x186b000) malloc: *** error for object 0x620010: double free
KisMAC(299,0x186b000) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug


The malloc error repeats 43 times as KisMac launches.

GPSd integration fires up OK, and then I get another malloc error more than 100 times:

2006-10-14 21:15:30.526 KisMAC[299] Connecting to gpsd (127.0.0.1)
2006-10-14 21:15:30.527 KisMAC[299] GPS started successfully in GPSd mode.
KisMAC(299,0x187da00) malloc: *** error for object 0x6d7150: double free
KisMAC(299,0x187da00) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug


I then immediately went to the Preferences dialog and clicked on the GPS option. A similar showing:

2006-10-14 21:15:34.181 KisMAC[299] Connecting to gpsd (127.0.0.1)
2006-10-14 21:15:34.189 KisMAC[299] GPS started successfully in GPSd mode.
KisMAC(299,0x189d400) malloc: *** error for object 0x6659f0: double free
KisMAC(299,0x189d400) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug


The malloc error repeates 27 times and then Kismac crashes:

Oct 14 21:15:37 iBook-G3 crashdump[301]: KisMAC crashed
Oct 14 21:15:39 iBook-G3 crashdump[301]: crash report written to: / Users/me/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/KisMAC.crash.log


Here is the first bit of the crash.log. If someone needs the whole log, let me know.



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