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*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer

Hello,

I working on a coding a utility, it completes, and when it ends I get this less than graceful exit:

Code:

ExecutionTime = 52.25 s  ClockTime = 54 s



End



*** glibc detected *** spinFoam: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001791200 ***

======= Backtrace: =========

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7eb96)[0x7f90da1edb96]

spinFoam(_ZN4Foam14GeometricFieldIdNS_12fvPatchFieldENS_7volMeshEED1Ev+0xb9)[0x411569]

spinFoam[0x40dc78]

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7f90da19076d]

spinFoam[0x40df6d]

...

Aborted (core dumped)

Any tips on how to debug this?

thanks,

James

Greetings James,

That's usually due to freeing an object from memory more than once... usually crashes on the second attempt to delete the object.

Also happens if you have two libraries loaded into memory, which manipulate the same object name. Or even worst, two libraries of the same file name (or similar), using identically named classes...

Best regards,
Bruno

Bruno,

Thanks for the pointers...ha ha. :D

Jim

Hi

I'm trying to create a pointer list of matrices by adding following lines to icoFoam (OpenFOAM 2.3.0, Ubuntu 14.04, gcc version: 4.8.2), the code compiles with out error but I get the following run time error, How ever I tried I couldn't find the solution. Please help:

Code:

       ...

        Info<< "Time = " << runTime.timeName() << nl << endl;



        #include "readPISOControls.H"

        #include "CourantNo.H"

       

        //*******new lines********

        PtrList<lduMatrix> PEqns(1);



        PEqns.set

        (

            0,

            new fvScalarMatrix

            (fvm::ddt(p))

        );

        //********end new lines********



        fvVectorMatrix UEqn

        (

            fvm::ddt(U)

          + fvm::div(phi, U)

          - fvm::laplacian(nu, U)

        );



        solve(UEqn == -fvc::grad(p));

       ...

error:

Code:

Create time



Create mesh for time = 0



Reading transportProperties



Reading field p



Reading field U



Reading/calculating face flux field phi





Starting time loop



Time = 0.005



Courant Number mean: 0 max: 0

smoothSolver:  Solving for Ux, Initial residual = 1, Final residual = 8.90511e-06, No Iterations 19

smoothSolver:  Solving for Uy, Initial residual = 0, Final residual = 0, No Iterations 0

DICPCG:  Solving for p, Initial residual = 1, Final residual = 7.55423e-07, No Iterations 35

time step continuity errors : sum local = 5.03808e-09, global = -7.94093e-21, cumulative = -7.94093e-21

DICPCG:  Solving for p, Initial residual = 0.523588, Final residual = 9.72371e-07, No Iterations 34

time step continuity errors : sum local = 1.07766e-08, global = 2.00426e-19, cumulative = 1.92485e-19

ExecutionTime = 0.01 s  ClockTime = 0 s



*** Error in `icoFoam': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001931250 ***

Aborted (core dumped)

any help is appreciated.

Merry Christmas

Bests
Bahram

Greetings Bahram,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bahram (Post 526397)

any ideas?!

I and plenty others on the forum have got a lot of ideas. The limitation is in fact having the necessary time to write and/or test those ideas. ;)
If you had spent the time to lay out the ideas you've tried out, it would have been easier to try and point out what you might be doing wrong. Since you didn't, it took me around 25 minutes to test, research and write this post with the answers. That might not look like a lot of time, but now multiply that by the number of posts I have on my to-do list :( I'm not the only one who answers questions here on the forum, but to me it seems we are too few to be able to answer to everyone...

Anyway, when it comes to OpenFOAM, it's best to search for similar/identical situations in its source code. I've used the following command:

Code:

find $FOAM_SOLVERS -name "*.[CH]" -type f | xargs grep PtrList

For more ideas: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...with_the_Shell

And then I looked into the file "multiphase/compressibleMultiphaseInterFoam/pEqn.H". It seems that there are two things you're doing wrong:

"new" is not the best solution, due to the complexity of the classes that OpenFOAM is using.
"lduMatrix" is a bad class for a pointer that you tell it to store "fvScalarMatrix".

For me, the following worked just fine:

Code:

          PtrList<fvScalarMatrix> PEqns(1);

          PEqns.set

          (

              0,

              (fvm::ddt(p)).ptr()

          );

Best regards,
Bruno

Dear Bruno

Thanks a lot for your nice reply and also all the time which you spend for answering our questions :). I'll give it a try.

Bests
Bahram

Hi there,

I am getting a similar error when I try to run the addSwirlAndRotation function, from the Turbomachinery course (see below). The error output begins:

*** Error in `addSwirlAndRotation': free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007ffe48afc1c8 ***

I managed to compile the function without any errors but I get this error when I execute it. (running OF3.0 on ubuntu)

I am not sure how this relates to previous comments by wyldckat or Bahram.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Best wishes,
Graham

Turbomachinery course:

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Si...nical_diffuser

Never mind, I have figured it out now. I updated to OF5.0 and now it works.

Quote:

Originally Posted by benham (Post 673968)

Never mind, I have figured it out now. I updated to OF5.0 and now it works.

Dear Benham,

Which version of ubuntu are you using? I have similar problem with OpenFOAM-2.3.1. My solver worked well that this error happened when I tried to do some fixing with paraView. I have Ubuntu-16.04 and I am wondering if I can get rid of the error by upgrading my OpenFOAM?

Regards,

Elham

Hi there,

My Ubuntu version is 16.04.

I think it should work if you upgrade to OF 5.0

Best wishes,
Graham