Garfield++ TrackHeed/Garfroot Issues

[skchan]

I’m trying to run a simple simulation with Garfield++ (software just updated, but the problem occurred before as well), but I can’t seem to include any object of the Garfield::TrackHeed class without inducing the following error when running the program (which compiles just fine):

RandomEngineRoot:
    Generator type: TRandom3
    Seed: 1361387185
alpha(20786) malloc: *** error for object 0x13c9e1ae0: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Abort trap: 6

The error occurs even when I write a program as simple as

#include "TrackHeed.hh"

using namespace std;

int main()
{
     Garfield::TrackHeed *heed = new TrackHeed();
     return 0;
}

I also tried making garfroot (which also compiles just fine using the makefile provided on the Garfield++ webpage). The same error occurs whenever I try starting garfroot. I’m running on Mac 10.8. I’m probably missing something pretty fundamental, but I’m at wit’s end. Any help would be much appreciated!

[pcanal]

Hi,

If you still encounter this problem, I recommend you try running your example with valgrind to pin point the issue (but it was likely a incompatible build issue)

Philippe.