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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc & other wierd errors
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:45:08
Message-Id: 1283913754.2666.108.camel@localhost
1 Hi all (I'm back briefly, only to go again soon) but I'm having some
2 hassles with vmware.
3
4 I'm running tuxonice 2.6.35, everything up to date. When I try and run
5 vmplayer:
6
7 ...
8 vmplayer: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr)
9 (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct
10 malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >=
11 (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk,
12 fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) -
13 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask)
14 == 0)' failed.
15 Aborted
16
17 running with valgrind:
18 $ vmplayer --valgrind
19 /opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/bin/launcher.sh: line 231: 28215 Illegal
20 instruction ...
21
22 the valgrind (snipped) log shows:
23 ==28215== Memcheck, a memory error detector
24 ...
25 ==28215== vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x66 0x66 0x2E 0xF
26 ==28215== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x6962e65.
27 ...
28 ==28215==
29 ==28215== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL)
30 ==28215== Illegal opcode at address 0x6962E65
31 ==28215== at 0x6962E65: __memset_sse2 (memset-sse2.S:258)
32 ==28215== by 0x9A9D557: ??? (in /usr/lib/libnvidia-glcore.so.256.53)
33 ==28215==
34 ==28215== HEAP SUMMARY:
35 ==28215== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
36 ==28215== total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
37 ==28215==
38 ==28215== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
39 ==28215==
40 ==28215== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
41 ==28215== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 15 from 8)
42
43 vmware-workstation gives all sorts of errors too from similar abortions,
44 segfaults, and complaints about libGL.so, depending on weather I start
45 it plainly or by using VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force.
46
47 I've tried all sorts of things - from USE_SHIPPED_GTK to xorg-x11 opengl
48 to reinstalling & recompiling modules, but no luck. Google is
49 unsympathetically silent on this one :(
50
51 Please help! thanks :)
52 --
53 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
54
55 The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
56 -- Andre Malraux

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc & other wierd errors Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>