[GRASS-dev] GRASS error after update to Ubuntu 9.10

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Mon Aug 3 13:35:32 EDT 2009


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:19 PM, roberto
marzocchi<roberto.marzocchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today I've updated Ubuntu 9.10 from Ubuntu 9.04
> A Grass 6.4-0RC5 binary version is correctly installed (default) and it's OK
>
> The GRASS installed from  source code give me this error:
>
> GRASS 6.4.0RC5 (WGS84):~ > *** glibc detected *** g.proj: double free or
> corruption (fasttop): 0x08b4eee0 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
...
> /usr/lib/libgeos-3.1.0.so[0x3748a54]
> /usr/lib/libgeos-3.1.0.so[0x37f2370]
...
> 004cd000-004e2000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 3527404    /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1.5.0
> 004e2000-004e3000 r--p 00014000 08:03 3527404    /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1.5.0
> 004e3000-004e4000 rw-p 00015000 08:03 3527404    /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1.5.0
...

My guess is that GEOS on Ubuntu has a problem. See also
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geos/+bug/387299

> The same error come from GRASS 6.4 and GRASS 6.3!

This seems to indicate that GRASS is *not* the problem but
an underlying library.

Markus


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