Re: KDC core dumping on Solaris 7

[eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)]

Someone more familiar with the code might have specific advice, but as
a general technique, failures inside malloc() usually mean that
something else previously corrupted the malloc() pool, and the trace
is only showing evidence of the final wreckage, not where the fault
occurred.  In such cases, I usually try linking with the Electric
Fence malloc (if you have Purify, that's good too, but EF is free and
for this *specific* class of problem, at least as good.)  Then you
will get a crash somewhere else, probably quite a bit earlier...

http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/c/ElectricFence-2.0.5.tar.gz