Description of problem: boinc terminated due to buffer overflow Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [wes@pvr ~]$ rpm -qf `which boinc` boinc-client-5.10.45-14.20080315svn.fc9.x86_64 All dependencies are current with f9 updates, but in case it's useful: [wes@pvr ~]$ ldd `which boinc` | cut -f 3 -d " " | xargs rpm -qf | sort | uniq cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.22-13.fc9.x86_64 e2fsprogs-libs-1.40.8-3.fc9.x86_64 glibc-2.8-3.x86_64 keyutils-libs-1.2-3.fc9.x86_64 krb5-libs-1.6.3-10.fc9.x86_64 libcurl-7.18.1-1.fc9.x86_64 libgcc-4.3.0-8.x86_64 libidn-0.6.14-7.x86_64 libselinux-2.0.64-2.fc9.x86_64 libstdc++-4.3.0-8.x86_64 nspr-4.7.0.99.2-2.fc9.x86_64 nss-3.11.99.5-2.fc9.x86_64 openldap-2.4.8-3.fc9.x86_64 openssl-0.9.8g-9.fc9.x86_64 zlib-1.2.3-18.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Only on first run. Second+ runs, the bind to project has succeeded, but it then fails repeatably in a different manner (see below) This is my first attempt at using boinc, so I haven't done anything else. Actual results: (first run) [wes@pvr ~]$ boinc --attach_project http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ 10198_d2b28b84195d982039e0ca60b442cf35 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for x86_64-pc- 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.1 NSS/3.12 Beta 3 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.14 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Data directory: /home/wes 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6] 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Memory: 1.97 GB physical, 1.94 GB virtual 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Disk: 685.63 GB total, 109.20 GB free 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Local time is UTC -7 hours 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/] URL: http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1006.54MB 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1811.78MB 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB 02-Jun-2008 23:59:16 [---] Running CPU benchmarks 02-Jun-2008 23:59:21 [http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/] Master file download succeeded *** buffer overflow detected ***: boinc terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x3ecb4fcda7] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3ecb4fabe0] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3ecb4f9f79] /lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x96)[0x3ecb476976] /lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x3abf)[0x3ecb44a33f] /lib64/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0x9d)[0x3ecb4fa01d] /lib64/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x80)[0x3ecb4f9f60] boinc[0x448101] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x426cf2] boinc[0x43a6cd] boinc[0x4268a0] boinc[0x414fb8] boinc[0x438431] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfa)[0x3ecb41e32a] boinc(_ZNSt8ios_base4InitD1Ev+0x41)[0x404549] ======= Memory map: ======== 00110000-00159000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879824 /lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8g 00159000-00358000 ---p 00049000 fd:00 37879824 /lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8g 00358000-0035f000 rw-p 00048000 fd:00 37879824 /lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8g 00400000-00477000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 73256488 /usr/bin/boinc_client 00676000-00677000 rw-p 00076000 fd:00 73256488 /usr/bin/boinc_client 00677000-00681000 rw-p 00677000 00:00 0 00681000-007c1000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879814 /lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8g 007c1000-009c0000 ---p 00140000 fd:00 37879814 /lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8g 009c0000-009e1000 rw-p 0013f000 fd:00 37879814 /lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8g 009e1000-009e4000 rw-p 009e1000 00:00 0 00a35000-00a78000 rw-p 00a35000 00:00 0 [heap] 3eca200000-3eca21d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879810 /lib64/ld-2.8.so 3eca41c000-3eca41d000 r--p 0001c000 fd:00 37879810 /lib64/ld-2.8.so 3eca41d000-3eca41e000 rw-p 0001d000 fd:00 37879810 /lib64/ld-2.8.so 3ecb400000-3ecb562000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879843 /lib64/libc-2.8.so 3ecb562000-3ecb762000 ---p 00162000 fd:00 37879843 /lib64/libc-2.8.so 3ecb762000-3ecb766000 r--p 00162000 fd:00 37879843 /lib64/libc-2.8.so 3ecb766000-3ecb767000 rw-p 00166000 fd:00 37879843 /lib64/libc-2.8.so 3ecb767000-3ecb76c000 rw-p 3ecb767000 00:00 0 3ecb800000-3ecb884000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879857 /lib64/libm-2.8.so 3ecb884000-3ecba83000 ---p 00084000 fd:00 37879857 /lib64/libm-2.8.so 3ecba83000-3ecba84000 r--p 00083000 fd:00 37879857 /lib64/libm-2.8.so 3ecba84000-3ecba85000 rw-p 00084000 fd:00 37879857 /lib64/libm-2.8.so 3ecbc00000-3ecbc02000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879855 /lib64/libdl-2.8.so 3ecbc02000-3ecbe02000 ---p 00002000 fd:00 37879855 /lib64/libdl-2.8.so 3ecbe02000-3ecbe03000 r--p 00002000 fd:00 37879855 /lib64/libdl-2.8.so 3ecbe03000-3ecbe04000 rw-p 00003000 fd:00 37879855 /lib64/libdl-2.8.so 3ecc000000-3ecc016000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879865 /lib64/libpthread-2.8.so 3ecc016000-3ecc215000 ---p 00016000 fd:00 37879865 /lib64/libpthread-2.8.so 3ecc215000-3ecc216000 r--p 00015000 fd:00 37879865 /lib64/libpthread-2.8.so 3ecc216000-3ecc217000 rw-p 00016000 fd:00 37879865 /lib64/libpthread-2.8.so 3ecc217000-3ecc21b000 rw-p 3ecc217000 00:00 0 3ecc400000-3ecc415000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879859 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 3ecc415000-3ecc614000 ---p 00015000 fd:00 37879859 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 3ecc614000-3ecc615000 rw-p 00014000 fd:00 37879859 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 3ecc800000-3ecc81a000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 37879876 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 3ecc8SIGABRT: abort called Stack trace (36 frames): boinc[0x446bcd] /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x3ecc00ed30] /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35)[0x3ecb432215] /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x183)[0x3ecb433d83] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3ecb472858] /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x3ecb4fcda7] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3ecb4fabe0] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3ecb4f9f79] /lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x96)[0x3ecb476976] /lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x3abf)[0x3ecb44a33f] /lib64/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0x9d)[0x3ecb4fa01d] /lib64/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x80)[0x3ecb4f9f60] boinc[0x448101] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x448124] boinc[0x426cf2] boinc[0x43a6cd] boinc[0x4268a0] boinc[0x414fb8] boinc[0x438431] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfa)[0x3ecb41e32a] boinc(_ZNSt8ios_base4InitD1Ev+0x41)[0x404549] Exiting... (second run) [wes@pvr ~]$ boinc --attach_project http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ 10198_d2b28b84195d982039e0ca60b442cf35 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for x86_64-pc- 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.1 NSS/3.12 Beta 3 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.14 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Data directory: /home/wes 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6] 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Memory: 1.97 GB physical, 1.94 GB virtual 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Disk: 685.63 GB total, 109.33 GB free 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Local time is UTC -7 hours 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Already attached to http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/] URL: http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1006.54MB 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1811.78MB 03-Jun-2008 00:19:47 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB 03-Jun-2008 00:20:16 [---] [error] GUI RPC bind failed: 98 gstate.init() failed: -180 Thereafter if I just 'boinc' (since it says it's bound to the project successfully), I get the same output as run #2 sans the "Already attached" line. Additional info: KDE4 desktop. Upgraded from f8, old Xorg retained for evil nVidia binary driver. I could maybe see that being related to the secondary failure (everything else runs peachy keen, though), but the first?
Please start BOINC by "service boinc-client start", otherwise it tries using your current working directory as its working directory and usually fails. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MilosJakubicek/HowToUseBoinc for details.