Re: Gnome2::Canvas Segmentation Fault

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandrakesoft com>]

muppet <scott asofyet org> writes:

> > I've just installed Gnome2::Canvas ( perl -GnomeCanvas-0.28-1mdk )
> > via RpmDrake in MDK9.2 but when I try to run it I get the error
> > message "Segmentation Fault" I've been told that this means there
> > is a bug somewhere.
> 
> "Segmentation fault" means that the program has violated memory
> protection by trying to access a memory address not owned by the
> program.  Invariably this is the result of dereferencing a bad
> memory pointer, which is, indeed, a bug.
> 
> 0.28 is an old version; there have been six releases since then.
> granted, the most recent releases depend on a bleeding-edge version
> of Glib, but the point is that the bug might have been fixed
> already.  ;-)

exactly.
john, you should try perl-Gnome2-Canvas-0.91-1mdk in mdk10.0.
the canva demos works smoothly. (if i rembember , it worked smoothly
too in mdk9.2 but for one of the demos)