Re: [Bug-gnubg] Segmentation fault when clicking on Settings - Appearence

[Jim Segrave]

On Sun 20 Mar 2005 (18:29 +0000), Barbara & Alessio Medici wrote:
> On Friday 18 March 2005 20:28, Jim Segrave wrote:
> > Do your run XFree or Xorg for your X server? I'm asking because I have
> > a FreeBSD 5.3 machine with Xorg where the X server itself gets a
> > SIGSEGV on Sttings->Appearance.
> > The same versions (it's been there for a while) under XFree on my
> > laptop, with FreeBSD 5.2, works normally. I've assumed it's something
> > not right in the Xorg server code and haven't really pursued it (for
> > one thing I probably would have to start by rebuilding X with the
> > latest source and that means rebuilding almost everything on my machine)
> >
> 
> I run xorg 6.8.1

I assume when gnubg dies, it generates a core file in the current
directory. Could you do the following:

$ cd /tmp
$ gnubg 
  go to settings->appearance so gnubg crashes
  look for a file core.gnubg or gnubg.core or whatever your system
  uses for corefile names - say it's gnubg.core
$ script coredump
  script is started file is coredump
$ gdb /usr/local/bin/gnubg coredump
  lots of startup messages
(gdb) bt
  you enter the backtrace command
  you get lots of lines of output (I hope)
(gdb) quit
$ exit
  script completed. File is coredump

Then post the file coredump to the list (or just mail it to me)


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