On 21 May 2023 at 16:05, Go Canes wrote: From: Go Canes <letsgonhlcanes0@xxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Sun, 21 May 2023 16:05:06 -0400 Subject: Re: Strange error running scripts. without #!/usr/bin/bash To: mikes@xxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:18 PM Michael D. Setzer II > <msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Recently was getting a strange error when running a script that didn't have #!/usr/bin/bash at top? > > free(): invalid next size (fast) > > Aborted (core dumped) > > Just adding the line fixes the issue, but not sure why?? > > Have run the script before with no such error, but had been a while? Script was just one line? Now 2 lines. > > #!/usr/bin/bash > > boincmgr -e /home/msetzerii/BOINC -d /home/msetzerii/BOINC > > I understand that adding the shebang makes it likely that this was > something to do with the script, but was wondering if somehow the > "free" error was actually coming from boincmgr. > > Also, any chance in the past you invoked it as "sh script.sh" as > opposed to "./script.sh"? And now you are just doing "./script.sh"? > That would explain the change in behavior. The run_manager script was originally create going back to 2005, and didn't have the #! line and had worked fine till this time. Strange thing is I tried to repeat error later, and it ran fine without the #! line?? Had seen the same error earlier when I had a 1 line script, and it gave same error. Found error in search, and seems to link it to a cpp program and memory issue. Machine has 16M ram and has 3.5M Free with 8M in buf/cache so about 4.5M being currently used by system. So, not sure why it came up, and now isn't coming up? +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
