Dear Dwayne,
can you ask your system experts what are thouse kernel parameters? I
am experiencing similar problems with ARS7.0.1 on RHEL 4 + Oracle.
Regards,
Maciej Stepniewski,
CERN Remedy Team.

On Jun 11, 6:36 pm, Dwayne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I reported this problem as '"Asynchronous even occured" and "glibcdetected" 
> when opening form' back in May 29.  I thot I had solved it, and when I 
> discovered that it wasn't fixed afterall, the title got so long that it was 
> changed (I don't know who changed it) to "ARSList Question NOT SOLVED 
> AFTERALL".
>
> The problem turned out to be a Red-Hat Linux issue.  One of our Systems 
> experts figured it out, and I'll simply pass on what he wrote to me:
>
> "There's a problem where double mallocs (double clearing of a memory 
> allocation) causes a hard error in newer versions of RH Linux - the program 
> crashes.  The custom form in use here apparently does this somewhere in a 
> function call.  This is an issue we've dealt with (sort of) before and the 
> systems guys just need to change a kernel paramater to cause a warning, 
> versus error, to be generated when this occurs.  This is the MALLOC parameter 
> which, when set, causes a warning, versus hard error (crash) to be generated 
> when a double clear occurs."
>
> Thanks to everyone who wrote in on this problem.
>
> Dwayne Martin
> Computing Support
> James Madison University
>
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