malloc(): memory corruption:

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Sat Nov 14 15:45:00 CST 2009


Try valgrind.

  Matt

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>wrote:

> Now for something more serious: I get a crash like this one:
>
> Starting KSPSolve (1/2)
>  0 KSP Residual norm 2.964538623545e-06
> *** glibc detected *** /home/domel/build/solve-debug/ns3t10mpi: malloc():
> memory corruption: 0x09258008 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0x5f9ff1]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0x5fcbb3]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_calloc+0xa9)[0x5fe009]
> /home/domel/build/solve-debug/ns3t10mpi(hypre_CAlloc+0x2c)[0x8b4ea28]
>
> /home/domel/build/solve-debug/ns3t10mpi(hypre_BoomerAMGCoarsenRuge+0xb5)[0x8af2c7b]
> (and so on)
>
> gdb invoked as:
>
> mpiexec -np 2 ..... -on_error_attach_debugger -display :0.0
>
> does not display any backtrace after the crash.
>
> Any hints how to debug are highly appreciated.
>
> Dominik
>



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