[sane-devel] Frustrated with making saned work

Giuseppe Sacco giuseppe at eppesuigoccas.homedns.org
Sun Apr 22 08:03:02 UTC 2007


Hi Mac,

Il giorno sab, 21/04/2007 alle 18.05 -0500, Mac Cody ha scritto:
[...]
>    *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x4001a7e6 ***
> 
> I tried setting up a psc_umax2100u.users file, following the same
> format as saned.users, but that didn't work.  Probably not a valid
> file anyway.

This show a problem in one of the program you use. glibc added this
check in recent versions.

You should find what was executing at that time using gdb or maybe
strace.
To help debug the process I suggest to set the variable MALLOC_CHECK_=1
("man malloc" for more information).

Bye,
Giuseppe



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