Re: [Groff] Problem with grotty

[Robert D. Goulding]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Using the latest groff on RH Linux 6.2: grotty seems to be broken.
> > man <anything> causes a segfault in grotty.  I've tried viewing some
> > of my own documents with groff -Tlatin1 -me something.me | less --
> > this causes a segfault and dumps core.
>
> I can't repeat it with the latest CVS sources.  Please provide a
> backtrace of grotty.
>

Backtrace from gdb, running grotty on some intermediate output from an -me
file.  I've tried it on intermediate output from other files using -ms and
-man macros, and get an identical backtrace.


Starting program: /usr/local/bin/grotty ng.raw

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x8049692 in tty_printer::tty_color (this=0x805b0e0, r=0, g=0, b=0,
    idx=0x58 <Address 0x58 out of bounds>, value=0) at tty.cc:240
240     tty.cc: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x8049692 in tty_printer::tty_color (this=0x805b0e0, r=0, g=0, b=0,
    idx=0x58 <Address 0x58 out of bounds>, value=0) at tty.cc:240
#1  0x804970c in tty_printer::tty_printer (this=0x805b0e0,
    device=0x805b2d0 "latin1") at tty.cc:250
#2  0x804a875 in make_printer () at tty.cc:702
#3  0x804c209 in do_file (filename=0xbffffa6f "ng.raw") at input.cc:1664
#4  0x804aa87 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff924) at tty.cc:797

HTH, R.