#266 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_all

[Anonymous]

Peter: Reply-To: athleston@yahoo.com
htdig version: 3.2.0.0-8 (mdk naming scheme)
OS: Mandriva Linux LE 2005
KDE version: 3.3.2

I get the following error trace with rundig on the CLI:

[root@client peter]# /usr/bin/rundig
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
/usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 32293 Aborted
$BINDIR/htnotify $opts
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My posix root account/email log shows a series of such
failures occurring over a period of time (verbose,
verbatim) :

From root@EdinaOffice.com Fri Sep 9 05:24:49 2005
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id A29E678D; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:24:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: root@EdinaOffice.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@EdinaOffice.com
Subject: Cron <root@client> nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id:
<20050909102449.A29E678D@client.EdinaOffice.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:24:49 -0500 (CDT)

terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
/usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 24141 Aborted
$BINDIR/htnotify $opts

From root@EdinaOffice.com Sat Sep 10 04:25:44 2005
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id 43202279; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:25:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: root@EdinaOffice.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@EdinaOffice.com
Subject: Cron <root@client> nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id:
<20050910092544.43202279@client.EdinaOffice.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:25:44 -0500 (CDT)

terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
/usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 22211 Aborted
$BINDIR/htnotify $opts

From root@EdinaOffice.com Sun Sep 11 04:37:19 2005
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id BD93A889; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:37:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: root@EdinaOffice.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@EdinaOffice.com
Subject: Cron <root@client> nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id:
<20050911093718.BD93A889@client.EdinaOffice.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:37:18 -0500 (CDT)

terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
/usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 28015 Aborted
$BINDIR/htnotify $opts

From root@EdinaOffice.com Mon Sep 12 04:21:45 2005
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id CBBCD2A1; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:21:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: root@EdinaOffice.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@EdinaOffice.com
Subject: Cron <root@client> nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id:
<20050912092145.CBBCD2A1@client.EdinaOffice.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:21:45 -0500 (CDT)

terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
/usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 24494 Aborted
$BINDIR/htnotify $opts

From root@EdinaOffice.com Tue Sep 13 04:22:04 2005
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id 89C102BE; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:22:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: root@EdinaOffice.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@EdinaOffice.com
Subject: Cron <root@client> nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id:
<20050913092204.89C102BE@client.EdinaOffice.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:22:04 -0500 (CDT)

terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
/usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 24047 Aborted
$BINDIR/htnotify $opts

From root@EdinaOffice.com Wed Sep 14 18:06:31 2005
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id 27D39254; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:06:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: root@EdinaOffice.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@EdinaOffice.com
Subject: Cron <root@client> nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id:
<20050914230620.27D39254@client.EdinaOffice.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:06:20 -0500 (CDT)

terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
/usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 30010 Aborted
$BINDIR/htnotify $opts

[Gilles Detillieux]

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Based on what you describe, it sounds like Mandriva is including
an older release of the 3.2 betas than what's current (3.2.0b6,
which has been out since June 16, 2004). The question is, how
old? If it's a 3.2.0b4 pre-release from before Aug 9, 2002, that
would explain the bug in htnotify. If it's newer than that, then I'm at
a bit of a loss to explain the error. Try running "htnotify -\?" to see
what version number it reports. Let us know if it reports something
we can use. The Mandriva package's version number is somewhat
meaningless to us as it doesn't tell us which 3.2.0 beta release it's
based on (i.e. b3, b4 snapshots, b5 or b6).

In any case, given that htnotify doesn't appear on line 48 of rundig
anymore in our release, it's pretty safe to say Mandriva isn't using
the latest 3.2.0b6 release, so you should request that they do. It
contains a lot of fixes for bugs in older beta releases.

If they don't help you by providing an updated package, and if
you're not using htnotify anyway, you can just comment out that
command on line 48 of your current /usr/bin/rundig script.