strange error when starting fiaif

[Freddy Freeloader]

Nikolay A. Fetisov wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
Thanks Nikolay.  I'll use the workaround for now.