dfinity / dfinity/dre

Memory Overflow Bug

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Since Sep 9, 2025.

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Description

Testing Summary for DRE Tool
Successfully installed the dre tool (versions 0.6.5 and 0.6.4), but encountered a critical bug preventing its use:

Installation Success ✅
Downloaded and installed dre v0.6.5 and v0.6.4 for x86_64 macOS
Binaries are correctly formatted and executable
Help commands work perfectly

Issue ❌
Memory Overflow Bug: Both versions crash with "capacity overflow" errors when trying to perform any network operations
Response I get:
thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at /rustc/05f9846f893b09a1be1fc8560e33fc3c815cfecb/library/alloc/src/raw_vec.rs:554:17:
capacity overflow

What Works
dre --version ✅
dre --help ✅
dre [command] --help ✅
Command structure exploration ✅

What Fails
Any actual network operations (get, subnet commands, etc.) ❌
ic-admin version management ❌
Network topology queries ❌

Computer specs:

  • 2018 MacBook Pro
  • Processor: 2,6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
  • Graphics: Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB
  • Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
  • Memory: 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

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