SUMMARY: help needed: map heap error

From: Ed Arnold (era@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1992 - 08:00:40 CST


I recently wrote:

> Machine: IPC, 12MB, 4.1.1, OW3.0
>
> The user of this machine can no longer run mailtool under OW3.
> Every time he starts it, the error message
>
> ld.so: map heap error (9) for /dev/zero
>
> comes out on the console, and mailtool does not start. Anyone
> know what causes this?

The solution for this problem has already appeared on sun-managers,
and is in the Release Notes for 4.1.1. (So who reads the Release Notes?
I don't even know where mine are!) I decided to summarize anyway since
I had not seen the original posting. Solutions proposed:

(1) Run /cdrom/OpenWindows/sun4/lib/OSpatches from the 4.1.1 CD.
(2) Run $OPENWINHOME/lib/OSpatches/install_4.1.1patches.
(3) Run $OPENWINHOME/bin/install_openwin.
(4) Goto 4.1.2.
(5) Check the permissions and major/minor dev numbers on /dev/zero.
(6) Make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes only $OPENWINHOME/lib.
(7) Apply ld.so/ldd/ldconfig jumbo patch 100257-04 (applicable to
    4.1.1, 4.1.2).
(8) The machine mounted the wrong kvm.
(9) Not enough swap space.

Solution (2) worked for us. Many thanks to the helpful men, women,
and nerds of sun-managers:

"Malcolm C. Strickland" <chucks@orl.mmc.com>
Adrian Booth <abcc@DIALix.oz.au>
Brent Alan Wiese <brent@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu>
Christian.Peter@uluru.Aus.Sun.COM (Christian Peter - SUN Sydney - Software Support)
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
Graeme Wood <jaw@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Mike Raffety <miker@il.us.swissbank.com>
birger@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)
cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
cynthia@ll.mit.edu (Cynthia Eldridge)
danny@ews7.dseg.ti.com
dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Dev Joneja)
eeimkey@eeiua.ericsson.se (Martin Kelly)
fallan@awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan (Network Manager))
joerg@wp-470-1.fl.bs.dlr.de (J. Theuerkauf)
jsidaris@Thomas.COM (Jim Sidaris)
mann@emma.la.asu.edu (Mark Mann)
ohio!jsidaris@sunkist.West.Sun.COM (Jim Sidaris)
peter@key.amdahl.com (Peter Sivo)
rcsmith@sed.csc.com (Ray Smith)
ron@sarah.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Gaug)
sitongia@ozzel.hao.ucar.edu (HAO Computer System Managment Group)
srm@shasta.gvg.tek.com (Steve Maraglia)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
ups!kevin@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
uunet!trdlnk!mike@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Michael Sullivan)

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