Re: request for help

[christophe barbé <christophe barbe lineo fr>]

Le mar, 21 aoû 2001 12:38:05, Ali Akcaagac a écrit :

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 21707)]
> 0x8083e2d in update_xsysop_value () at pref-manager.c:978
> 978		 if (balsa_app.xsysop_cmd[0] == 0) return;
> (gdb) 
> 
> oki, i noticed that this segfaults causes because you call the function
> without check if i have SystemIdentificationCmd in my balsa prefs. i
> manually added this 'SystemIdentificationCmd=uname' and run again. this
> happens.

Yes at the beginning I've copied the pref for the indent string and the "=>
" at the end of the string used to read the config was not clear to me (I
was certainly tired).
Before sending you my patch I understood what it was (the default value)
and to hide my ignorance I've remove "=> " in the patch (without further
test) and then this add a bug.

> bash-2.05$ gdb /tmp/balsa/src/balsa 
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> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /tmp/balsa/src/balsa 
> [New Thread 1024 (LWP 26626)]
> --> Linux
> 
> thread_db: map_id2thr failed: invalid thread handle
> (gdb) 

This is scaring.

> any ideas how to go any further so i could come into normal operations
> and check that threading thingy ?
> 
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> Name....: Ali Akcaagac
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