Re: [sleuthkit-users] Unable to run srch_strings

[Tom Y. <to...@ya...>]

John Stewart was able to help me get it working.  I had to checkout a
specific tag (in this case 4.1.3) and then recompile.

Tom


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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Tom Yarrish <to...@ya...> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have an Ubuntu 14.04.02 at work, and I've compiled sleuthkit from source
> (off the github repo).  Most of the tools run without any issues, however
> I'm not able to run srch_strings against any file (I even tried it against
> the NEWS.txt file in the TSK source directory).  When I do, I get the
> following error:
>
> *** Error in `srch_strings': double free or corruption (fasttop): <hex
> address>
>
> The hex address changes each time so I'm assuming it's a memory address.
>
> Regular strings (the program) on the system works fine.
>
> I've never run into this error before on any of my systems so I'm not sure
> where to start looking for the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> PGP Key ID - B32585D0
>