Description of Problem: Up2date crashes with the message: memory alloc (2686451720 bytes) returned NULL. When run in X the program first retrieves the list of packages, then crashes. When run in a terminal (console or X) as up2date -p the program says "Updating package profile" and then crashes after a few seconds. The error message is always the same. Up2date --version runs OK and displays version 2.5.4. How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date from an xterm, or up2date - p from xterm or console. 2. 3. Actual Results: The program crashes with error message memory alloc (2686451720 bytes) returned NULL. Expected Results: Normal operation of up2date program. Additional Information:
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I have the same exact error happening, it just started yesterday. I am using kernel 2.4.3-16 with RH 7.1 using the same version of up2date.
I also get this same error message. Dell Inspiron 5000e running RH7.1 with kernel-2.4.3-12 and up2date-2.5.4-1.
I have same problem running RH7.1 kernel 2.4.12 with severity always. up2date ver. 2.5.4
I havent ever been able to duplicate this, so I'm not sure what is going on. rhnqa, can you attempt to duplicate this? I dont seem to have much luck.
closed, havent seen this ever with currently supported releases
Failures seen on i686 with FC2 updating kernel package 2.6.9-1.6-FC2 from 2.6.9-1.3_FC2 Up2date suddenly begins allocating huge amounts of memory and fails after having allocated more than half a gig. Progress/status box shows.. Testing package set / solving RPM interdependencies completion window has not started to fill in. Note that the system is up to date on all other packages as of this date. 12/31/04 [root@snowwhite root]# up2date& http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedo-Jcore-2 using mirror: http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora/2/i386/os/ http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2 using mirror: http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i38/J/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/checklist.py:139: DeprecationWarning: integer auJment expected, got float info = self.get_selection_info (event.x, event.y) memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL.