Bug#116317: Assertion failure in ext2fs/libports

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:08:43PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I just got this crash:
> > 
> > ext2fs.static: ../../libports/port-ref.c:31: ports_port_ref:
> > Assertion 'pi->refcnt || pi->weakrefcnt' failed.
> > 
> > It seems it's not reproducible.
> 
> If you ever do manage to reproduce it, the stack trace from here will tell
> us a lot about what is going wrong.  This assert means that the caller
> should not have been calling ports_port_ref, i.e. the bug is almost
> certainly in ext2fs (or one of the other libraries) and not in libports 
> itself.

I just got this in the middle of the second glibc build (I also did some
other stuff before that, so it is quite rare).  Of course, I had no debugger
attached.  It was also ext2fs.static, although I was building on a different
filesystem.

Of course, this doesn't help us a bit.

Thanks,
Marcus

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