below is a message from my boot log. Can anyone tell me if this is a major concern and how to prevent it? Starting smartd *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/sbin/smartd terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7fb7e56744f7] /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0x7fb7e56744c0] /usr/sbin/smartd[0x7fb7e64cacad] /usr/sbin/smartd[0x7fb7e64cc84f] /usr/sbin/smartd[0x7fb7e64d2bfc] /usr/sbin/smartd[0x7fb7e64b9308] /usr/sbin/smartd[0x7fb7e64ba732] /usr/sbin/smartd(main+0x6)[0x7fb7e64bbd66] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7fb7e55aa586] /usr/sbin/smartd[0x7fb7e64b0049] ======= Memory map: ======== 7fb7e5388000-7fb7e538a000 r-xp 00000000 08:12 2252823 /lib64/libdl-2.9.so 7fb7e538a000-7fb7e558a000 ---p 00002000 08:12 2252823 /lib64/libdl-2.9.so 7fb7e558a000-7fb7e558b000 r--p 00002000 08:12 2252823 /lib64/libdl-2.9.so 7fb7e558b000-7fb7e558c000 rw-p 00003000 08:12 2252823 /lib64/libdl-2.9.so 7fb7e558c000-7fb7e56db000 r-xp 00000000 08:12 2252811 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 7fb7e56db000-7fb7e58db000 ---p 0014f000 08:12 2252811 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 7fb7e58db000-7fb7e58df000 r--p 0014f000 08:12 2252811 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 7fb7e58df000-7fb7e58e0000 rw-p 00153000 08:12 2252811 /lib64/libc-2.9.so 7fb7e58e0000-7fb7e58e5000 rw-p 7fb7e58e0000 00:00 0 7fb7e58e5000-7fb7e58fb000 r-xp 00000000 08:12 2252911 /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 7fb7e58fb000-7fb7e5afb000 ---p 00016000 08:12 2252911 /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 7fb7e5afb000-7fb7e5afc000 r--p 00016000 08:12 2252911 /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 7fb7e5afc000-7fb7e5afd000 rw-p 00017000 08:12 2252911 /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 7fb7e5afd000-7fb7e5b52000 r-xp 00000000 08:12 2252827 /lib64/libm-2.9.so 7fb7e5b52000-7fb7e5d51000 ---p 00055000 08:12 2252827 /lib64/libm-2.9.so 7fb7e5d51000-7fb7e5d52000 r--p 00054000 08:12 2252827 /lib64/libm-2.9.so 7fb7e5d52000-7fb7e5d53000 rw-p 00055000 08:12 2252827 /lib64/libm-2.9.so 7fb7e5d53000-7fb7e5e44000 r-xp 00000000 08:15 49587 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.10 7fb7e5e44000-7fb7e6043000 ---p 000f1000 08:15 49587 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.10 7fb7e6043000-7fb7e604a000 r--p 000f0000 08:15 49587 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.10 7fb7e604a000-7fb7e604c000 rw-p 000f7000 08:15 49587 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.10 7fb7e604c000-7fb7e605f000 rw-p 7fb7e604c000 00:00 0 7fb7e605f000-7fb7e607a000 r-xp 00000000 08:12 2252839 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 7fb7e607a000-7fb7e6279000 ---p 0001b000 08:12 2252839 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 7fb7e6279000-7fb7e627a000 r--p 0001a000 08:12 2252839 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 7fb7e627a000-7fb7e627b000 rw-p 0001b000 08:12 2252839 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 7fb7e627b000-7fb7e627c000 rw-p 7fb7e627b000 00:00 0 7fb7e627c000-7fb7e629a000 r-xp 00000000 08:12 2252802 /lib64/ld-2.9.so 7fb7e6470000-7fb7e6474000 rw-p 7fb7e6470000 00:00 0 7fb7e6497000-7fb7e6499000 rw-p 7fb7e6497000 00:00 0 7fb7e6499000-7fb7e649a000 r--p 0001d000 08:12 2252802 /lib64/ld-2.9.so 7fb7e649a000-7fb7e649b000 rw-p 0001e000 08:12 2252802 /lib64/ld-2.9.so 7fb7e649b000-7fb7e64f0000 r-xp 00000000 08:15 2007403 /usr/sbin/smartd 7fb7e66f0000-7fb7e66f7000 r--p 00055000 08:15 2007403 /usr/sbin/smartd 7fb7e66f7000-7fb7e66f8000 rw-p 0005c000 08:15 2007403 /usr/sbin/smartd 7fb7e66f8000-7fb7e6753000 rw-p 7fb7e66f8000 00:00 0 [heap] 7fffee4da000-7fffee4ef000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fffee54b000-7fffee54c000 r-xp 7fffee54b000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] /etc/init.d/smartd: line 180: 4012 Aborted $SMARTD_BIN $smartd_opts done Thanks ----------------------------- Russ openSUSE 11.1 (2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64) KDE 4.2 release 106, Intel DX48BT2 Core 2 Dual E7200. 4 GB DDR III GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org