Client fails with malloc error, when stopped and started

[rybakowicki]

When signed to World Community Grid project URL: ​http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ and BOINC is disturbed (closed), either by ./boinc_cmd --quit or signal, the client fails to start again with an malloc error. To start it again client_state*.xml have to be deleted.

Failed:

21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.2.15 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.5.1
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Data directory: /home/michal/BOINC
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ssht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.25.18-0.2-pae
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Memory: 1.98 GB physical, 2.01 GB virtual
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Disk: 74.31 GB total, 64.13 GB free
21-Nov-2008 23:58:12 [---] Local time is UTC +1 hours
*** glibc detected *** ./boinc: malloc(): memory corruption: 0xbfd3eed4 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dd7fc4]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dda6aa]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x9c)[0xb7ddc11c]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_Znwj+0x27)[0xb7fa9d67]
./boinc[0x8058a60]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-081d7000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 3465920    /home/michal/BOINC/boinc
081d7000-081e7000 rwxp 0018f000 08:07 3465920    /home/michal/BOINC/boinc
081e7000-08346000 rwxp 081e7000 00:00 0          [heap]
b7800000-b7821000 rwxp b7800000 00:00 0
b7821000-b7900000 ---p b7821000 00:00 0
b791a000-b7cd5000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 3056697    /usr/lib/libcuda.so.177.73
b7cd5000-b7cd7000 rwxp 003ba000 08:07 3056697    /usr/lib/libcuda.so.177.73
b7cd7000-b7d00000 rwxp b7cd7000 00:00 0
b7d00000-b7d07000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794939     /lib/librt-2.8.so
b7d07000-b7d08000 r-xp 00006000 08:07 794939     /lib/librt-2.8.so
b7d08000-b7d09000 rwxp 00007000 08:07 794939     /lib/librt-2.8.so
b7d09000-b7d50000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 3752336    /usr/local/cuda/lib/libcudart.so.2.0
b7d50000-b7d52000 rwxp 00046000 08:07 3752336    /usr/local/cuda/lib/libcudart.so.2.0
b7d52000-b7d5b000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794986     /lib/libnss_files-2.8.so
b7d5b000-b7d5c000 r-xp 00008000 08:07 794986     /lib/libnss_files-2.8.so
b7d5c000-b7d5d000 rwxp 00009000 08:07 794986     /lib/libnss_files-2.8.so
b7d5d000-b7d5e000 rwxp b7d5d000 00:00 0
b7d5e000-b7d6a000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794674     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7d6a000-b7d6b000 r-xp 0000b000 08:07 794674     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7d6b000-b7d6c000 rwxp 0000c000 08:07 794674     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7d6c000-b7ea9000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794975     /lib/libc-2.8.so
b7ea9000-b7eab000 r-xp 0013d000 08:07 794975     /lib/libc-2.8.so
b7eab000-b7eac000 rwxp 0013f000 08:07 794975     /lib/libc-2.8.so
b7eac000-b7eb0000 rwxp b7eac000 00:00 0
b7eb0000-b7ed4000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794985     /lib/libm-2.8.so
b7ed4000-b7ed5000 r-xp 00023000 08:07 794985     /lib/libm-2.8.so
b7ed5000-b7ed6000 rwxp 00024000 08:07 794985     /lib/libm-2.8.so
b7ed6000-b7eea000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794677     /lib/libpthread-2.8.so
b7eea000-b7eeb000 r-xp 00013000 08:07 794677     /lib/libpthread-2.8.so
b7eeb000-b7eec000 rwxp 00014000 08:07 794677     /lib/libpthread-2.8.so
b7eec000-b7eee000 rwxp b7eec000 00:00 0
b7eee000-b7fd3000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 3056523    /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.10
b7fd3000-b7fd7000 r-xp 000e5000 08:07 3056523    /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.10
b7fd7000-b7fd8000 rwxp 000e9000 08:07 3056523    /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.10
b7fd8000-b7fde000 rwxp b7fd8000 00:00 0
b7fde000-b7ff0000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794762     /lib/libz.so.1.2.3
b7ff0000-b7ff1000 r-xp 00011000 08:07 794762     /lib/libz.so.1.2.3
b7ff1000-b7ff2000 rwxp 00012000 08:07 794762     /lib/libz.so.1.2.3
b7ff2000-b7ff4000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794980     /lib/libdl-2.8.so
b7ff4000-b7ff5000 r-xp 00001000 08:07 794980     /lib/libdl-2.8.so
b7ff5000-b7ff6000 rwxp 00002000 08:07 794980     /lib/libdl-2.8.so
b7ff6000-b8009000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 794749     /lib/libnsl-2.8.so
b8009000-b800a000 r-xp 00012000 08:07 794749     /lib/libnsl-2.8.so
b800a000-b800b000 rwxp 00013000 08:07 794749     /lib/libnsl-2.8.so
b800b000-b800e000 rwxp b800b000 00:00 0
b8027000-b8042000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 795070     /lib/ld-2.8.so
b8042000-b8043000 r-xp 0001a000 08:07 795070     /lib/ld-2.8.so
b8043000-b8044000 rwxp 0001b000 08:07 795070     /lib/ld-2.8.so
bfd2e000-bfd43000 rwxp bffeb000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
SIGABRT: abort called
Stack trace (11 frames):
./boinc[0x8094e76]
[0xffffe400]
[0xffffe430]
/lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x50)[0xb7d96900]
/lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x188)[0xb7d98238]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dd210d]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dd7fc4]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dda6aa]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x9c)[0xb7ddc11c]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_Znwj+0x27)[0xb7fa9d67]
./boinc[0x8058a60]

Exiting...

and after:

rm client_state*
./boinc
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.2.15 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.5.1
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Data directory: /home/michal/BOINC
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ssht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.25.18-0.2-pae
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Memory: 1.98 GB physical, 2.01 GB virtual
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Disk: 74.31 GB total, 64.13 GB free
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Local time is UTC +1 hours
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Coprocessor: CUDA (1)
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [World Community Grid] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 01-Jan-1970 01:00:01)
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Host location: none
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] General prefs: using your defaults
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1519.66MB
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1519.66MB
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 3.73GB
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
22-Nov-2008 00:18:01 [World Community Grid] Fetching scheduler list
22-Nov-2008 00:18:06 [World Community Grid] Master file download succeeded
22-Nov-2008 00:18:11 [World Community Grid] Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.  Requesting 1 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
22-Nov-2008 00:18:16 [World Community Grid] Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
22-Nov-2008 00:18:16 [World Community Grid] Message from server: Not sending work - last request too recent: 49 sec
22-Nov-2008 00:18:18 [World Community Grid] File stat_v01.png exists already, skipping download
22-Nov-2008 00:18:18 [World Community Grid] File default_00_v01.gif exists already, skipping download
22-Nov-2008 00:18:18 [World Community Grid] File dddt_00_v01.gif exists already, skipping download
22-Nov-2008 00:18:18 [World Community Grid] File dddt_01_v01.png exists already, skipping download