Bug#401950: nexuiz: double free, memory errors

Jiří Paleček jpalecek at web.de
Mon Dec 11 00:05:03 CET 2006


Hi

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:45:48 +0100, Bruno Kleinert <fuddl at gmx.de> wrote:

> hi!
>
> in your supplied files i noticed, that you're using the open source
> radeon driver for your graphics card. i'm sorry to tell you, but this
> driver is known to be buggy for nexuiz.
>
> if your graphics hardware is supported by ati's closed source driver

no, it isn't

> "fglrx", could you please try nexuiz with this driver and check if the
> problems still exists?
>
> i only have nvidia crads around driven by nvidia's closed source driver
> and cannot reproduce the error - neither on i386 nor on amd64.

I don't think it is related to graphics. The invalid free happens in
the very initializetion, then there are memcpy inside nexuiz that copy
to overlapping memory locations (should be memmove), the rest are
not errors.

Regards
     Jiri Palecek




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