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. Located the earlier script. It still gave the error so tried strace and got strace ./mktext2x.sh execve("./mktext2x.sh", ["./mktext2x.sh"], 0x7ffc37e55570 /* 35 vars */) = -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error) strace: exec: Exec format error +++ exited with 1 +++ But running the corrected one ran fine as is and with strace. But then tried to run it again, and mktext2x.sh runs without error? Running the one with bash line, strace works fine. strace ./mktext2.sh execve("./mktext2.sh", ["./mktext2.sh"], 0x7ffc9afbcb80 /* 63 vars */) = 0 brk(NULL) = 0x55a016794000 The script is: #!/usr/bin/bash for a in $(ls -1rt status_cgi*); do n=$(echo "$a" | sed 's/status_cgi.//g;s/status_cgi//g'); html2text -b0 "$a" >text."$n" ; grep "^Downstream" <text."$n" | sed 's/[[:alpha:]|]//g;s/^ //g;s/ / /g' | cut -f1,4,5,9 -d' ' >down."$n" ; done So, why it seems to always work with the #! line, but seems to randomly work without it? But always fails with strace without #! line? Extracting cable modem status info for many saved status_cgi files. Strange that it isn't consistant? +------------------------------------------------------------+ 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