On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:21:25PM +0000, Nuno Fernandes wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed an centos 5.2 with all the updates 'till now. Next i've > tried the following install script that worked fine: > > virt-install -n test -r 512 --vnc --file=/dev/VolGroup00/test-os -- > location=ftp://mirrors/centos/5/os/i386 -x 'text' > > Next i've rebuild rpm of libvirt to libvirt-0.6.1 (using --with-rhel5-api). > The rpm build fine and installed without any errors. Next i've retried the > virt-install script but i get the following error: > > > [root@localhost ~]# virt-install -n test -r 512 --vnc -- > file=/dev/VolGroup00/test-os --location=ftp://mirrors/centos/5/os/i386 -x > 'text' > > > Starting install... > *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid next size (fast): > 0x0936a1b8 *** > ======= Backtrace: ========= > /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6[0x1e0906] > /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x1e3e30] > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(virFree+0x24)[0x8eb4e4] > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0x94793c] > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0[0x93abf1] > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(virDomainLookupByUUID+0xb7)[0x8fda77] > /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(virDomainLookupByUUIDString+0x17f)[0x8ffbaf] > /usr/lib/python2.4/site- > packages/libvirtmod.so(libvirt_virDomainLookupByUUIDString+0x6d)[0xfa349d] Yes I'm seeing this too on 0.6.1 on RHEL-5.3, I'm trying to chase it down, it's a bit hard to find out where the memory corruption occurs. > I've memtested the memory and its fine. If i use a file as the target (instead > of a block device) it also works: > > virt-install -n test -r 512 --vnc --file=/tmp/test-os --file-size=2 -- > location=ftp://mirrors/centos/5/os/i386 yes I get the crash with a file based target too. I'm investigating ... Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list