We (Henning and I) are currently experiencing some strange problems with the HEAD of Pathfinder. It looks like there is a problem with memory management in Pathfinder. On our 64 bit SuSe9.3 system crashes every time we do a second query through the Mapi interface. * start Mserver, run mil_start(); * then run through the MapiClient interface 2 times the query "1+1" Now the Mserver crashes and gdb gives: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1107310944 (LWP 4579)] 0x00002aaaac67e3d2 in memcpy () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0x00002aaaac67e3d2 in memcpy () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x00002aaab6546150 in ?? () #2 0x00002aaab4c31c02 in mem_realloc (pa=<value optimized out>, p=0x0, n=2048) at mem.c:133 #3 0x00002aaab4c31c4e in PFrealloc_ (n=<value optimized out>, mem=<value optimized out>, file=0x2aaab4d1212c "array.c", func=0x2aaab4d120fc "PFarray_at", line=128) at mem.c:165 #4 0x00002aaab4c3130b in PFarray_at (a=0x2aaab6546970, i=1) at array.c:128 #5 0x00002aaab4c32d28 in PFqname (ns={prefix = 0x0, uri = 0x0}, loc=0x0) at qname.c:188 #6 0x00002aaab4b98730 in PFty_xs_anyAttribute () at types.c:675 #7 0x00002aaab4b99f81 in PFfun_xquery_fo () at xquery_fo.c:122 #8 0x00002aaab4b797a0 in PFcompile_MonetDB (xquery=0xff83b9 "1+1\n", url=0xff83b9 "1+1\n", prologue=0x42002a08, query=0x42002960, epilogue=0x42002a18, options=<value optimized out>) at compile.c:730 #9 0x00002aaab4b76e22 in xquery_compile_exec (ctx=0x6227b8, url=0xff83b9 "1+1\n", is_url=0, prologue=0x42002a08, query=0x42002a10, epilogue=0x42002a18, nsurl=0x0) at pathfinder.mx:3586 #10 0x00002aaab4b78207 in xquery_prepare (ctx=0x6227b8, usec=18557579, query=0xff83b9 "1+1\n") at pathfinder.mx:4911 #11 0x00002aaab4b794ee in xquery_client_engine (fc=0x2aaab4fc1ad8) at pathfinder.mx:5054 #12 0x00002aaab4ebf882 in mapi_client_engine (FC=<value optimized out>) at mapi.mx:509 #13 0x00002aaaabfcd84f in start_thread () from /lib64/tls/libpthread.so.0 #14 0x00002aaaac6c6703 in clone () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #15 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #16 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #17 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #18 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () [ etc etc etc] On my 32 bit SuSE 9.3 system it crashes already in the first query: * start Mserver, run mil_start(); teehuis software/SCRIPTS> MapiClient -p 50123 -lx xquery>1+1 more>MAPI = monetdb@localhost:50123 QUERY = 1+1 ERROR = !tree matching: NULL pointer passed to PFnormalize_label ! !# halted in normalize.brg (PFnormalize_label), line 3649 xquery> Anybody any idea what changed lately. I heard that JanR was planning some changes in the memory allocator, JanF.