strange error when starting fiaif

[Nikolay A. Fetisov]

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:43:57 +0100
postmaster wrote:

> Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> >
> > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x080ac4f8
> > ***
> > /etc/init.d/fiaif: line 55: 21053 Aborted                 awk -f
> > ${FIAIF_SHARED}/syntax.awk -f ${FIAIF_SHARED}/fiaif_rules.awk <
> > ${CONF_FILE} >${TMP_FILE}
> 
> Seems like a bug in your awk interpreter. What interpreter are you
> using? I'm currently using mawk, and gawk used to work, all through I
> have not tested it for a while.
> > 

This is a known bug in gawk 3.1.5 when runing with multibyte locales.
See
#218161 in OpenSUSE: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218161
#9785 in ALT Linux: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9785
and
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2006-07/msg00096.html

Quick workaround: start fiaif as
# LC_ALL=C /etc/init.d/fiaif start


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Best regards,
Nikolay Fetisov