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Re: kinit locking up

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon DeVree)
Tue Dec 13 21:22:08 2005

Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:21:09 -0500
From: Jon DeVree <jadevree@mtu.edu>
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> This is not so normal.  The first few fields look like part of an  
> ASCII string written over a data structure:
> 

I took some dumps from GDB from when it "worked" and just so you know:
os = {p = {__m_reserved = 1668572463, __m_count = 1651665711,
__m_owner = 0x6f632e35, __m_kind = 26222, __m_lock = {__status = 2217,
__spinlock = -1209583464}}, owner =0}

Those first 4 values work out to
/etc/krb5.conf

> Or, reversing for little-endian values, "/krb5.co".  That suggests  
> some memory corruption, or initialization not happening.  Could you  
> try valgrind or electric fence and see if they spot any problems?
> 

I'll try that, never used them before though.

-- 
Jon
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