Description of problem: glibc error reported while installing kernel (obtained from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/devel/ ) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.15-1.1980_FC5.x86_64.rpm grub-0.97-3 How reproducible: reproducable with: rpm -ivh --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.15-1.1980_FC5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.1980_FC5.x86_64.rpm Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.15-1.1980_FC5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel -2.6.15-1.1980_FC5.x86_64.rpm 2. 3. Actual results: Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel-devel ########################################### [ 50%] 2:kernel ########################################### [100%] *** glibc detected *** /sbin/grubby: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fff fffd5a90 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x17a)[0x30f1c6d9fa] /sbin/grubby[0x408746] /sbin/grubby[0x4088a3] /sbin/grubby[0x409892] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x30f1c1d024] /sbin/grubby[0x402bc9] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00442000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 65208409 /sbin/g rubby 00541000-00545000 rw-p 00041000 fd:00 65208409 /sbin/g rubby 00545000-005c8000 rw-p 00545000 00:00 0 [heap] 30f0f00000-30f0f19000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 21659654 /lib64/ ld-2.3.90.so 30f1019000-30f101a000 r--p 00019000 fd:00 21659654 /lib64/ ld-2.3.90.so 30f101a000-30f101b000 rw-p 0001a000 fd:00 21659654 /lib64/ ld-2.3.90.so 30f1c00000-30f1d32000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 21659657 /lib64/ libc-2.3.90.so 30f1d32000-30f1e31000 ---p 00132000 fd:00 21659657 /lib64/ libc-2.3.90.so 30f1e31000-30f1e35000 r--p 00131000 fd:00 21659657 /lib64/ libc-2.3.90.so 30f1e35000-30f1e36000 rw-p 00135000 fd:00 21659657 /lib64/ libc-2.3.90.so 30f1e36000-30f1e3b000 rw-p 30f1e36000 00:00 0 30f3900000-30f390d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 21659678 /lib64/ libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060219.so.1 30f390d000-30f3a0c000 ---p 0000d000 fd:00 21659678 /lib64/ libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060219.so.1 30f3a0c000-30f3a0d000 rw-p 0000c000 fd:00 21659678 /lib64/ libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060219.so.1 2aeacfcb1000-2aeacfcb2000 rw-p 2aeacfcb1000 00:00 0 2aeacfcd7000-2aeacfcd9000 rw-p 2aeacfcd7000 00:00 0 7ffffffc4000-7ffffffda000 rw-p 7ffffffc4000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffffe00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 89: 22056 Aborted /sbin/grubby --add- kernel=$bootPrefix/$kernelName-$version $INITRD --copy-default $makedefault --ti tle "$title" ${mbkernel:+--add-multiboot="$mbkernel"} ${mbargs:+--mbargs="$mbarg s"} --args="root=$rootdevice $kernargs" --remove-kernel="TITLE=$title" Expected results: Additional info:
Same problem occurs with the older grub-0.97-2.1
This is also a problem with i386 arch.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183010 ***