Re: dnf aborting

[Kevin Cummings]

On 03/27/17 18:26, stan wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:54:42 -0400
> Kevin Cummings  wrote:
> > I last updated:
> >
> > Mar 27 01:01:34 INFO Upgraded: icoutils-0.31.3-1.fc24.x86_64
> > Mar 27 01:01:35 INFO Cleanup: icoutils-0.31.2-1.fc24.x86_64
>
> URL         : http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/                                                                                                                                                                                                 
> Summary     : Utility for extracting and converting Microsoft icon and cursor files                                                                                                                                                           
> Description :                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
> The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in                                                                                                                                                                    
> Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the                                                                                                                                                                         
> extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables or                                                                                                                                                                       
> libraries.
> > Since then, dnf update aborts with:
> > > *** Error in `/usr/bin/python3': realloc(): invalid next size:
> > > 0x00005597a7b29670 *** ======= Backtrace: =========
>
> That's a very large size, so it is obviously wrong.
> > Anyone else seeing this?
>
> No, and my F25 system updated just fine today.  It seems crazy that
> icoutils would cause a problem in python3 / dnf.  Is there any chance
> that your disks or memory are going flaky?

That's a possibility.  I have a lot of problems with firefox,
thunderbird, and sometimes parts of the kernel occasionally aborting
because "something went wrong, restarting".
> You could try downgrading to the previous version of the dnf packages
> to see if it is a dnf error.  You would probably have to go to koji
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=14310
> to get them at this point.  To see what packages you need, do a 
> dnf remove dnf
> and make sure to hit NO. Look at the dependencies that would be erased,
> and get all those packages from koji.

I had a different solution.  I went off site today (w/laptop) and things
worked well where I was.  When I got back home, I un-suspended the
laptop but forgot to plug it in.  After 2 hours, the battery discharged.
 After plugging back in, when I tried to reboot
(kernel-4.9.13-101.fc24), it hung twice trying to start the gui.  When I
rebooted with kernel-4.9.13-100.fc24, it came up, and the dnf update
succeeded!  Gee, now I have 4.9.17 kernel to try!  B^)
> Or, just try a reinstall of dnf (and its dependent packages) to see if
> that fixes the problem.
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