Bug 1421341 - Grace not opening in Fedora 25
Summary: Grace not opening in Fedora 25
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grace
Version: 25
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: José Matos
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-11 08:16 UTC by asckj1
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:24:56 UTC
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core backtrace after grace crashed (4.13 KB, text/plain)
2017-02-11 08:16 UTC, asckj1
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Description asckj1 2017-02-11 08:16:28 UTC
Created attachment 1249199 [details]
core backtrace after grace crashed

Description of problem: 

I installed grace plotting software (grace-5.1.25-6.fc24.i686) via yum/dnf install on Fedora 25 (32-bit) OS Workstation Edition without any errors. However, when I open it in terminal via xmgrace I get the following error message:
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xmgrace: malloc.c:2403: sysmalloc: Assertion `(old_top == initial_top (av) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= MINSIZE && prev_inuse (old_top) && ((unsigned long) old_end & (pagesize - 1)) == 0)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
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Please help.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grace-5.1.25-6.fc24.i686
 

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open terminal
2. Type xmgrace

Actual results:
xmgrace: malloc.c:2403: sysmalloc: Assertion `(old_top == initial_top (av) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= MINSIZE && prev_inuse (old_top) && ((unsigned long) old_end & (pagesize - 1)) == 0)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Expected results:
Grace GUI should open.

Additional info:
Please see attached file core_backtrace.txt

Comment 1 José Matos 2017-02-15 10:42:29 UTC
Hi,
  I am running on x86-64 and I do not see that problem.

According to a quick search I suspect that there is a memory corruption before that point.

The most helpful option would be to run xmgrade with valgrind to detect where does this corruption happens.

Comment 2 asckj1 2017-04-07 11:19:35 UTC
I tried running xmgrace with valgrind as suggested. The xmgrace window open now with the following information in terminal.

valgrind xmgrace 
==19663== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==19663== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==19663== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==19663== Command: xmgrace
==19663== 
==19663== Invalid write of size 1
==19663==    at 0x7F9BCAC: intT1_GetFileSearchPath (in /usr/lib/libt1.so.5.1.2)
==19663==    by 0x7F969C7: intT1_scanFontDBase (in /usr/lib/libt1.so.5.1.2)
==19663==    by 0x7F9824C: T1_InitLib (in /usr/lib/libt1.so.5.1.2)
==19663==    by 0x15A788: ??? (in /usr/bin/xmgrace)
==19663==    by 0x111495: main (in /usr/bin/xmgrace)
==19663==  Address 0x915073c is 820 bytes inside an unallocated block of size 4,144,096 in arena "client"
==19663== 
==19663== 
==19663== HEAP SUMMARY:
==19663==     in use at exit: 617,003 bytes in 8,619 blocks
==19663==   total heap usage: 15,588 allocs, 6,969 frees, 3,081,580 bytes allocated
==19663== 
==19663== LEAK SUMMARY:
==19663==    definitely lost: 168 bytes in 7 blocks
==19663==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==19663==      possibly lost: 14,058 bytes in 597 blocks
==19663==    still reachable: 602,777 bytes in 8,015 blocks
==19663==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==19663== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==19663== 
==19663== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==19663== ERROR SUMMARY: 35 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)


Sorry I am unable to understand what to do as I am very new to this. Please suggest.

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