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Tue, Jul 29, 2008 8:48 pm

TinyMUSH 3.1 Crashing After a Power Outage

A CentOS Linux system on which I was running TinyMUSH 3.1 patchlevel 5, the latest version of the MUSH available at the time I'm writing this entry, would not restart after I brought the system back online after a power outage. When I ran the Startmush script, I would see the following: 
$ ./Startmush
Indexing help.txt
1004 topics indexed
Indexing mushman.txt
395 topics indexed
Indexing news.txt
line 5: line too long
line 7: line too long
line 9: line too long
line 11: line too long
line 13: line too long
line 17: line too long
line 19: line too long
line 21: line too long
line 23: line too long
line 25: line too long
line 27: line too long
line 41: line too long
line 43: line too long
line 45: line too long
line 47: line too long
line 49: line too long
line 120: line too long
line 122: line too long
line 124: line too long
line 126: line too long
line 128: line too long
line 130: line too long
line 132: line too long
line 134: line too long
line 136: line too long
line 138: line too long
line 140: line too long
line 142: line too long
line 144: line too long
line 146: line too long
line 148: line too long
line 150: line too long
line 152: line too long
line 244: line too long
line 247: line too long
line 298: line too long
line 300: line too long
line 305: line too long
line 350: line too long
line 357: line too long
line 359: line too long
line 362: line too long
line 364: line too long
line 621: line too long
line 623: line too long
line 625: line too long
line 627: line too long
line 629: line too long
line 631: line too long
line 633: line too long
line 839: line too long
line 841: line too long
line 843: line too long
line 845: line too long
line 847: line too long
line 853: line too long
line 862: line too long
line 874: line too long
line 876: line too long
line 878: line too long
line 880: line too long
line 882: line too long
line 884: line too long
line 886: line too long
line 888: line too long
line 890: line too long
line 907: line too long
line 912: line too long
62 topics indexed
Indexing plushelp.txt
line 4: line too long
line 9: line too long
line 142: line too long
line 229: line too long
line 254: line too long
line 282: line too long
line 655: line too long
line 680: line too long
line 880: line too long
42 topics indexed
Indexing qhelp.txt
18 topics indexed
Indexing wizhelp.txt
379 topics indexed
Indexing wiznews.txt
1 topics indexed
Checking for database files and creating backups of old files.
Saving old comsys module db.
Saving old mail module db.
Saving old game log moondreaming.log
Log cleanup done.
Process 18073
080729.193501 TinyMUSH INI/START: Starting: TinyMUSH version 3.1 patchlevel 5 #1 [01/27/2008]
080729.193501 TinyMUSH INI/START: Build date: Thu Apr 10 21:54:36 EDT 2008
080729.193501 TinyMUSH INI/START: Build info: ./configure
            gcc   -g  -I./gdbm-1.8.0
*** glibc detected *** ./bin/netmush: double free or corruption (top): 0x000000000c2076f0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x2aaaab825684]
/lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0x2aaaab828ccc]
/lib64/libc.so.6(fclose+0x14b)[0x2aaaab8148eb]
./bin/netmush[0x430a85]
./bin/netmush(tf_fclose+0x1d)[0x430cb0]
./bin/netmush[0x497e11]
./bin/netmush(main+0x74b)[0x499a72]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x2aaaab7d18b4]
./bin/netmush(sin+0xb1)[0x40f529]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-0053d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 30377121                           /home/amy/tinymush/src/netmush
0073c000-0074c000 rw-p 0013c000 fd:00 30377121                           /home/amy/tinymush/src/netmush
0074c000-00770000 rw-p 0074c000 00:00 0 
0c052000-0c221000 rw-p 0c052000 00:00 0 
2aaaaaaab000-2aaaaaac5000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651907                    /lib64/ld-2.5.so
2aaaaaac5000-2aaaaaac6000 rw-p 2aaaaaac5000 00:00 0 
2aaaaaae3000-2aaaaaae4000 rw-p 2aaaaaae3000 00:00 0 
2aaaaacc5000-2aaaaacc6000 r--p 0001a000 fd:00 6651907                    /lib64/ld-2.5.so
2aaaaacc6000-2aaaaacc7000 rw-p 0001b000 fd:00 6651907                    /lib64/ld-2.5.so
2aaaaacc7000-2aaaaad49000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651947                    /lib64/libm-2.5.so
2aaaaad49000-2aaaaaf48000 ---p 00082000 fd:00 6651947                    /lib64/libm-2.5.so
2aaaaaf48000-2aaaaaf49000 r--p 00081000 fd:00 6651947                    /lib64/libm-2.5.so
2aaaaaf49000-2aaaaaf4a000 rw-p 00082000 fd:00 6651947                    /lib64/libm-2.5.so
2aaaaaf4a000-2aaaaaf5f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651956                    /lib64/libnsl-2.5.so
2aaaaaf5f000-2aaaab15e000 ---p 00015000 fd:00 6651956                    /lib64/libnsl-2.5.so
2aaaab15e000-2aaaab15f000 r--p 00014000 fd:00 6651956                    /lib64/libnsl-2.5.so
2aaaab15f000-2aaaab160000 rw-p 00015000 fd:00 6651956                    /lib64/libnsl-2.5.so
2aaaab160000-2aaaab162000 rw-p 2aaaab160000 00:00 0 
2aaaab162000-2aaaab173000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651972                    /lib64/libresolv-2.5.so
2aaaab173000-2aaaab373000 ---p 00011000 fd:00 6651972                    /lib64/libresolv-2.5.so
2aaaab373000-2aaaab374000 r--p 00011000 fd:00 6651972                    /lib64/libresolv-2.5.so
2aaaab374000-2aaaab375000 rw-p 00012000 fd:00 6651972                    /lib64/libresolv-2.5.so
2aaaab375000-2aaaab378000 rw-p 2aaaab375000 00:00 0 
2aaaab378000-2aaaab381000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651918                    /lib64/libcrypt-2.5.so
2aaaab381000-2aaaab580000 ---p 00009000 fd:00 6651918                    /lib64/libcrypt-2.5.so
2aaaab580000-2aaaab581000 r--p 00008000 fd:00 6651918                    /lib64/libcrypt-2.5.so
2aaaab581000-2aaaab582000 rw-p 00009000 fd:00 6651918                    /lib64/libcrypt-2.5.so
2aaaab582000-2aaaab5b0000 rw-p 2aaaab582000 00:00 0 
2aaaab5b0000-2aaaab5b2000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651941                    /lib64/libdl-2.5.so
2aaaab5b2000-2aaaab7b2000 ---p 00002000 fd:00 6651941                    /lib64/libdl-2.5.so
2aaaab7b2000-2aaaab7b3000 r--p 00002000 fd:00 6651941                    /lib64/libdl-2.5.so
2aaaab7b3000-2aaaab7b4000 rw-p 00003000 fd:00 6651941                    /lib64/libdl-2.5.so
2aaaab7b4000-2aaaab8fe000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651914                    /lib64/libc-2.5.so
2aaaab8fe000-2aaaabafd000 ---p 0014a000 fd:00 6651914                    /lib64/libc-2.5.so
2aaaabafd000-2aaaabb01000 r--p 00149000 fd:00 6651914                    /lib64/libc-2.5.so
2aaaabb01000-2aaaabb02000 rw-p 0014d000 fd:00 6651914                    /lib64/libc-2.5.so
2aaaabb02000-2aaaabb09000 rw-p 2aaaabb02000 00:00 0 
2aaaabb09000-2aaaabb18000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 30377114                   /home/amy/tinymush/game/modules/comsys.so.0.0.0
2aaaabb18000-2aaaabd18000 ---p 0000f000 fd:00 30377114                   /home/amy/tinymush/game/modules/comsys.so.0.0.0
2aaaabd18000-2aaaabd19000 rw-p 0000f000 fd:00 30377114                   /home/amy/tinymush/game/modules/comsys.so.0.0.0
2aaaabd19000-2aaaabd2b000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 30377105                   /home/amy/tinymush/game/modules/mail.so.0.0.0
2aaaabd2b000-2aaaabf2b000 ---p 00012000 fd:00 30377105                   /home/amy/tinymush/game/modules/mail.so.0.0.0
2aaaabf2b000-2aaaabf2c000 rw-p 00012000 fd:00 30377105                   /home/amy/tinymush/game/modules/mail.so.0.0.0
2aaaabf2c000-2aaaabf2e000 rw-p 2aaaabf2c000 00:00 0 
2aaaac000000-2aaaac021000 rw-p 2aaaac000000 00:00 0 
2aaaac021000-2aaab0000000 ---p 2aaaac021000 00:00 0 
2aaab0000000-2aaab000d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 6651906                    /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080102.so.1
2aaab000d000-2aaab020d000 ---p 0000d000 fd:00 6651906                    /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080102.so.1
2aaab020d000-2aaab020e000 rw-p 0000d000 fd:00 6651906                    /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080102.so.1
7fffd4567000-7fffd457d000 rw-p 7fffd4567000 00:00 0                      [stack]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffffe00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0                  [vdso]
080729.193501 TinyMUSH CNF/MOD  : Loaded module: comsys
080729.193501 TinyMUSH CNF/MOD  : Loaded module: mail
080729.193501 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Using gdbm file: moondreaming.gdbm
080729.193501 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Loading object structures.
080729.193501 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Loading db: data/mod_mail.db
Timeout - String 'Cleanup completed.' not found in 'moondreaming.log'. Giving up.
./Startmush: line 262: 18073 Aborted                 $BIN/netmush $make_db -c $GAMENAME.conf -l $LOGNAME -p $PIDFILE -t $TEXT -b $BIN -d $DATA -g $GDBM_DB -k $CRASH_DB >> $LOGNAME 2>&1

The "line too long" messages are normal for this MUSH and don't impact the functioning of the MUSH. The first unexpected message I see is the line below:

*** glibc detected *** ./bin/netmush: double free or corruption (top): 0x000000000c2076f0 ***

The line in the Startmush file that was producing the error message is shown below: 

$BIN/netmush $make_db -c $GAMENAME.conf -l $LOGNAME -p $PIDFILE -t $TEXT -b $BIN -d $DATA -g $GDBM_DB -k $CRASH_DB >>$LOGNAME 2>&1 &

I suspected the problem might be related to the fact that I'm running the MUSH on a 64-bit version of CentOS now. It was previously installed on a 32-bit Red Hat 9 Linux system. I remembered encountering problems when I initially moved it to the CentOS system in April, related to the fact that the CentOS system was a 64-bit operating system. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly how I resolved the problems I encountered then.

When I performed a Google search on "glibc double free or corruption 64-bit", one of the pages I found, glibc detected double free or corruption error? had a posting by RavenOfOdin that offered a solution:

Re: glibc detected double free or corruption error?

That's an old Linux C++ error. Not new news.
To fix it so you can run the program just type:

export MALLOC_CHECK_=0

before running the program.

So I entered the command export MALLOC_CHECK_=0 from a BASH shell prompt before the Startmush command. It solved the problem and the MUSH started as before the crash. I don't remember entering that command previously to get the MUSH to run, but since it did fix the problem, I thought I had better document it for the next time I encountered the problem. 

$ export MALLOC_CHECK_=0
$ ./Startmush
Indexing help.txt
1004 topics indexed
Indexing mushman.txt
395 topics indexed
Indexing news.txt
line 5: line too long
line 7: line too long
line 9: line too long
line 11: line too long
line 13: line too long
line 17: line too long
line 19: line too long
line 21: line too long
line 23: line too long
line 25: line too long
line 27: line too long
line 41: line too long
line 43: line too long
line 45: line too long
line 47: line too long
line 49: line too long
line 120: line too long
line 122: line too long
line 124: line too long
line 126: line too long
line 128: line too long
line 130: line too long
line 132: line too long
line 134: line too long
line 136: line too long
line 138: line too long
line 140: line too long
line 142: line too long
line 144: line too long
line 146: line too long
line 148: line too long
line 150: line too long
line 152: line too long
line 244: line too long
line 247: line too long
line 298: line too long
line 300: line too long
line 305: line too long
line 350: line too long
line 357: line too long
line 359: line too long
line 362: line too long
line 364: line too long
line 621: line too long
line 623: line too long
line 625: line too long
line 627: line too long
line 629: line too long
line 631: line too long
line 633: line too long
line 839: line too long
line 841: line too long
line 843: line too long
line 845: line too long
line 847: line too long
line 853: line too long
line 862: line too long
line 874: line too long
line 876: line too long
line 878: line too long
line 880: line too long
line 882: line too long
line 884: line too long
line 886: line too long
line 888: line too long
line 890: line too long
line 907: line too long
line 912: line too long
62 topics indexed
Indexing plushelp.txt
line 4: line too long
line 9: line too long
line 142: line too long
line 229: line too long
line 254: line too long
line 282: line too long
line 655: line too long
line 680: line too long
line 880: line too long
42 topics indexed
Indexing qhelp.txt
18 topics indexed
Indexing wizhelp.txt
379 topics indexed
Indexing wiznews.txt
1 topics indexed
Checking for database files and creating backups of old files.
Saving old comsys module db.
Saving old mail module db.
Saving old game log moondreaming.log
Log cleanup done.
Process 20430
080729.202051 TinyMUSH INI/START: Starting: TinyMUSH version 3.1 patchlevel 5 #1 [01/27/2008]
080729.202051 TinyMUSH INI/START: Build date: Thu Apr 10 21:54:36 EDT 2008
080729.202051 TinyMUSH INI/START: Build info: ./configure
            gcc   -g  -I./gdbm-1.8.0
080729.202051 TinyMUSH CNF/MOD  : Loaded module: comsys
080729.202051 TinyMUSH CNF/MOD  : Loaded module: mail
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Using gdbm file: moondreaming.gdbm
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Loading object structures.
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Loading db: data/mod_mail.db
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Loading db: data/mod_comsys.db
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/COM  : Unrecognized comsys format.
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Load complete.
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH CFG/UPDAT: God(#1) entered config directive: money_name_singular with args 'Moon Coin'. Status: Success.
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH CFG/UPDAT: God(#1) entered config directive: money_name_plural with args 'Moon Coins'. Status: Success.
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Startup processing complete.
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH NET/SLAVE: DNS lookup slave started on fd 1
080729.202051 MoonDreamingMUSH INI/LOAD : Cleanup completed.

References:

  1. glibc detected double free or corruption error?
    By: RavenOfOdin
    Date: May 12th, 2006
    Ubuntu Forums

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Tue, Jul 29, 2008 11:53 am

Ghost 2003 Backup of Laptop SATA Drive

I received another HP Compaq tc4400 laptop while mine, which would no longer power on, was being repaired. I put the 80 GB SATA drive from my laptop in the new laptop. I wanted to backup the drive to an external USB drive using Norton Ghost 2003 prior to using it in the new system, so I attached the laptop's external DVD drive and attempted to boot from a Ghost 2003 boot CD. I received a message that command.com couldn't be found. I tried several Ghost 2003 boot CD's, but none worked. I was able to boot from a Ghost 2003 boot floppy disk, but when I ran Ghost, I received the message below:

Application Error
Read sector failure, result=1, drive=1,sectors 729050177 to
729050178
If this problem persists, contact Symantec Technical Support
at http://service.symantec.com

I put the drive in a desktop system and booted that system from one of the Ghost 2003 CDs I had tried with the laptop. I didn't receive any error messages and was able to back up the drive without any problems, so I'm not sure why I received the error message when attempting the backup with the laptop.

I know that sometimes a CD or DVD drive will have problems with discs from a particular manufacturer, so perhaps the external HP DVD ROM drive (p/n: PA509A#ABA) was having a problem reading the Office Depot CD-R discs I had put Ghost on, but that shouldn't have any bearing on Ghost aborting when I tried to start it to backup the disk drive. I was able to boot the laptop using the external DVD-ROM drive with an Ubuntu Linux LiveCD. 

Ghost Backup

Drive	Size (MB)	Type	Cylinders	Heads	Sectors
    1	    76319	Basic	    20023	  255	     63


					Volume	Size	Data Size
Part	Type	ID	Description	Label	in MB	in MB
   1	Primary 07	       NTFS	No name	76316	    41270
					Free	    2
------------------------------------------------------------------
                                        Total	76319	    41270




Speed (MB/min):369


MB copied:38730


Time elapsed:1:44:56

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