Re: [Bug-gnubg] Segmentation fault at startup

[mjan]

Problem found: gdb spat out that the segmentation fault originated from
libxml2. I installed the latest version of libxml2 (2.4.30) and now it
works.

/Martin 

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 18:52, mjan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was happily using gnubg on Linux until one day it refused to launch.
> As the snapshot I was using was anyway a bit old, I decided to download
> the latest snapshot (021229). It compiled without any problem and gnubg
> started ... once.
> 
> Now I have the same problem: segmentation fault at startup. I tried
> running it with the -b,-t,-q,-r options, without success. Deleting the
> ~/.gnubg directory and another fresh install didn't solve the problem
> either.
> 
> System:
> SuSe Linux 7.3, gcc 2.95.3, gtk 1.2.10  
> 
> Here the last couple of lines from an "strace gnubg":
> 
>  
> stat64("/usr/local/share/gnubg/met/met.dtd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=1405, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/usr/local/share/gnubg/met/met.dtd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=1405, ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/local/share/gnubg/met/met.dtd", O_RDONLY) = 6
> fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1405, ...}) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> -1, 0) = 0x406ab000
> read(6, "<!--\n\n     met.dtd\n\n     by Joer"..., 16384) = 1405
> read(6, "", 12288)                      = 0
> _llseek(6, 0, [1405], SEEK_CUR)         = 0
> brk(0x8654000)                          = 0x8654000
> read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
> brk(0x8656000)                          = 0x8656000
> brk(0x8658000)                          = 0x8658000
> read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
> close(6)                                = 0
> munmap(0x406ab000, 4096)                = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> 
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> CIAO,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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