Re: [Evolution] bus error causing crashes



On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 07:11 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
using Debian Sid/unstable with Evolution 3.4.4 (but happened since
3.4.x), wanting to reply to some message, Evolution often crashes due to
a Âbus errorÂ. Does somebody experience something similar?

I think that is a euphamism for a segmentation fault.

No, they are different things - a seg fault is when a program attempts
to access a memory segment it doesn't own and a bus error is when a
program attempts to access memory beyond the capabilities of the
machine.  Both are caused by similar things, such as dereferencing
invalid pointers, but bus errors sometimes point to hardware problems.

A common error resulting in SIGBUS is accessing a memory mapped file
beyond the end of the file but still inside the memory map.

A program of mine often gets this signal (when I have a bug) because I
mmap a full 1 GB in order to reserve that virtual memory for an
expanding file, but the file may be only 550 MB.

The mmap man page documents that.

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