On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Sean Gillies wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> First, thanks for the great piece of software!
>> 
>> I am a happy user of Shapely since a few years, but since I upgraded
>> my server to Ubuntu 9.10 I notice the following message everytime I my
>> Python application ends:
>> 
>> *** glibc detected *** python: double free or corruption (!prev):
>> 0x00000000018839b0 ***
>> 
>> Also, the process hangs and never completes. This problem is
>> particularly painful when Python is run as a CGI within Apache, as
>> HTTP requests will never complete.  Otherwise on the command-line, I
>> just issue a CTRL-C to stop it.
>> 
>> Software that has changed during the Ubuntu upgrade includes:
>> 
>>  * Python, from 2.6.2 to 2.6.4
>>  * Libgeos, from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
>> 
>> I tried to upgrade shapely from 1.0.11 to 1.0.14 with no luck.
>> 
>> Note that I also use python-mapscript, the package that comes with
>> mapserver, also using libgeos.  I verified that only one version of
>> libgeos is installed and used.
>> 
>> Here is the gdb backtrace during the hang:
>> 
>> #0  __lll_lock_wait_private () at
>> ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:97
>> #1  0x00007f238c6c7b11 in _L_lock_9274 () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> #2  0x00007f238c6c5741 in *__GI___libc_free (mem=0x7f238c9b5e40) at
>> malloc.c:3714
>> #3  0x00007f238d48ab32 in _dl_scope_free (old=0xf6e5b0) at dl-open.c:175
>> #4  0x00007f238d485035 in _dl_map_object_deps (map=0x7f238d697530,
>> preloads=<value optimized out>, npreloads=<value optimized out>,
>> trace_mode=<value optimized out>, open_mode=<value optimized out>) at
>> dl-deps.c:668
>> #5  0x00007f238d48ada3 in dl_open_worker (a=<value optimized out>) at
>> dl-open.c:326
>> #6  0x00007f238d486386 in _dl_catch_error (objname=<value optimized
>> out>, errstring=<value optimized out>, mallocedp=<value optimized
>> out>, operate=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at
>> dl-error.c:178
>> #7  0x00007f238d48a6c7 in _dl_open (file=0x7f238c77e2ae
>> "libgcc_s.so.1", mode=-2147483647, caller_dlopen=0x0, nsid=-2, argc=1,
>> argv=0x18, env=0xafed90) at dl-open.c:615
>> #8  0x00007f238c767c00 in do_dlopen (ptr=0x7ffff3913b10) at dl-libc.c:86
>> #9  0x00007f238d486386 in _dl_catch_error (objname=<value optimized
>> out>, errstring=<value optimized out>, mallocedp=<value optimized
>> out>, operate=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at
>> dl-error.c:178
>> #10 0x00007f238c767d57 in dlerror_run (name=<value optimized out>,
>> mode=<value optimized out>) at dl-libc.c:47
>> #11 *__GI___libc_dlopen_mode (name=<value optimized out>, mode=<value
>> optimized out>) at dl-libc.c:160
>> #12 0x00007f238c7426e5 in init () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/../ia64/backtrace.c:41
>> #13 0x00007f238d2687a3 in pthread_once () at
>> ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_once.S:94
>> #14 0x00007f238c7427e4 in *__GI___backtrace (array=<value optimized
>> out>, size=64) at ../sysdeps/x86_64/../ia64/backtrace.c:79
>> #15 0x00007f238c6b6cab in __libc_message (do_abort=<value optimized
>> out>, fmt=<value optimized out>) at
>> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:168
>> #16 0x00007f238c6c0dd6 in malloc_printerr (action=3,
>> str=0x7f238c7827b0 "double free or corruption (!prev)", ptr=<value
>> optimized out>) at malloc.c:6217
>> #17 0x00007f238c6c574c in *__GI___libc_free (mem=<value optimized
>> out>) at malloc.c:3716
>> #18 0x00007f2384a5130b in msGEOSCleanup () from
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/_mapscript.so
>> #19 0x00007f2384969fda in msCleanup () from
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/_mapscript.so
>> #20 0x00000000004c2cc2 in call_ll_exitfuncs () at ../Python/pythonrun.c:1705
>> #21 Py_Finalize () at ../Python/pythonrun.c:534
>> #22 0x00000000004185c2 in Py_Main (argc=<value optimized out>,
>> argv=<value optimized out>) at ../Modules/main.c:625
>> #23 0x00007f238c669abd in __libc_start_main (main=<value optimized
>> out>, argc=<value optimized out>, ubp_av=<value optimized out>,
>> init=<value optimized out>, fini=<value optimized out>,
>> rtld_fini=<value optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffff3914738) at
>> libc-start.c:220
>> #24 0x0000000000417ca9 in _start () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/elf/start.S:113
>> 
>> I have no clue where the problem comes from, however, when I edit the
>> installed python2.6/shapely/geos.py module and comment the cleanup
>> code, Python does not crash anymore:
>> 
>> def cleanup():
>>    if lgeos is not None:
>>        pass
>>        #lgeos.finishGEOS()
>> 
>> Any idea?  Your help will be much appreciated.
> 
> Hi Jean-Baptiste,
> 
> I suspect at-exit cleanup collision: mapscript's msCleanup is freeing
> some memory allocated by libgeos and when Shapely exits, cleanup()
> attempts to free that same memory. I've created a ticket in the
> tracker:
> 
> http://trac.gispython.org/lab/ticket/217
> 
> If you've anything to add, please register and do so. In the
> meanwhile, do not use Shapely with mapscript. Mapscript provides most
> of the functionality if not such a handy API.
> 

I fixed this problem in a newer version of GEOS 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/256) so it will not double free in 
finishGEOS.  Another thing to try....

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