Re: GNUstep apps segfault on startup with Debian packages

[Jim Balhoff]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Adam Fedor wrote:

> These are all very odd problems. Is it possible to get a gdb backtrace?

> And your path should include $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/
> ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/gpbs, unless GNUstep.sh is not getting
> sourced. Or unless you have a very old version of GNUstep installed.

GNUstep.sh is getting sourced.  It's just that the .xinitrc I downloaded
from GNUstep.net references ...Tools/gpbs, which didn't exist, so I just
made a link instead of changing the file.

Here is a backtrace from Ink.app:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 555)]
0x403aa6f8 in _gnu_process_args ()
   from
/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-base.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0x403aa6f8 in _gnu_process_args ()
   from
/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-base.so.1
#1  0x403ab1a6 in _gnu_process_args ()
   from
/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-base.so.1
#2  0x40496e4a in __objc_install_premature_dtable () from
/usr/lib/libobjc.so.1
#3  0x40496cb4 in __objc_init_dispatch_tables () from
/usr/lib/libobjc.so.1
#4  0x40497be1 in objc_msg_lookup () from /usr/lib/libobjc.so.1
#5  0x403ab992 in GSDebugSet ()
   from
/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-base.so.1
#6  0x40146e97 in NSBeginInformationalAlertSheet ()
   from
/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-gui.so.0
#7  0x40496e4a in __objc_install_premature_dtable () from
/usr/lib/libobjc.so.1
#8  0x40496e63 in __objc_install_premature_dtable () from
/usr/lib/libobjc.so.1
#9  0x40496cb4 in __objc_init_dispatch_tables () from
/usr/lib/libobjc.so.1
#10 0x40497be1 in objc_msg_lookup () from /usr/lib/libobjc.so.1
#11 0x0804a5f7 in main ()
#12 0x40616a5f in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)