Re[4]: [Help-gnunet] Re: [GNUnet-developers] GNUnet 0.6.0a released

[Hendrik Pagenhardt]

Ok, after a few days of testing and tweaking GNUnet is finally running
again stably.

> I looked at the line generating the error. I am quite sure that the
> code is correct. Usually I try not to blame the compiler, but this
> code has been working just fine for many people for 2 months, so
> either you compiler did something strange, your hardware has a problem
> (memory??) or we have some random memory corruption in GNUnet. Any of
> the three would also explain your segfaults.

As it turned out, there was a problem with my memory. I tried to upgrade
it a few days ago, which failed (motherboard to old :( ) and in the
process I have swapped in a memory module which had a bit error. I
swapped it out again and now GNUnet is running ok. As there was a flurry
of updates in the CVS and the timing of the faults did not directly
coincide with my memory experiments, I got on the wrong track...

Sorry I made noise about it, but at least we know now how GNUnet reacts
to bad memory ;)

Thanks for giving the right hints.

Ciao,
     Hendrik