On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 bardioc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > after a successful installation and update to Kernel 2.4.20-9, my RedHat > 9.0 installation crashes when trying to activate the network device > eth0. > > The message it gets is: > > malloc: unknown: 0: assertion botched > free: start and end chunk sizes differ > stopping myself > > My system uses the e1000 module and an Intel EtherExpress Card. > > I'm not really sure if the error has something to do with this driver, > but I will try to get another NIC and test it with this. If you read the errata associated to this kernel, you will see that the e1000 module has been modified since 2.4.20-8. I would boot from the 2.4.20-8 kernel if you still have it installed, and if you don't get the same problem, report it in bugzilla ( http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ ) against the kernel package. Michael Young
