Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp git on Mac Segfault

[su_v <suv-sf users sourceforge net>]

On 2013-07-28 07:32 +0100, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> yes I saw your message in the report too. Actually I was feeling this
> would work your crash around when I wrote this patch. But that is
> still not a fix. When you open the preferences and check the Interface
> tab, then the language list, this list is empty now, right?

No, it lists all languages.


On 2013-07-28 07:31 +0100, Partha Bagchi wrote:
> Are you using Macport? I don't use Macport and build all my
> dependencies from scratch.

Yes, I use MacPorts for the dependencies.


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> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM, su_v <suv-sf users sourceforge net> wrote:
> > On my system (10.7.5), GIMP launches ok, but crashes when opening
> > the preferences. See stack trace in
> > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704592#c6>
> >
> > With your patch applied (and no other local changes), GIMP still
> > launches ok, and now no longer crashes when opening the preferences
> > dialog (see attached log).
> >
> >
> > On 2013-07-28 05:47 +0100, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> > > Hey Partha, su_v,
> > >
> > > could you test the following patch:
> > > - copy it in your GIMP directory;
> > > - apply it with this command from the GIMP directory:
> > > patch -p0 < osx_crash.diff
> > > - compile and try again.
> > >
> > > I believe it would not fix your crash, because I did not change the
> > > calls where your traces say it happens. Problem is that it apparently
> > > crashes at strchr() but there are 5 of them in this function. Looking
> > > at what seems to be the code in MacOSX of strchr(), looks like it may
> > > be when the string is NULL, but in my code, I don't see anywhere where
> > > this is supposed to be possible.
> > > So unless you can run a debugger to know which exact strchr() line it
> > > happens at, I added some debug output in the code. Just copy paste
> > > anything which may be outputted before crash.
> > > You will most likely have a whole bunch of lines on screen because I
> > > want to cover as much ground as possible, so you can run like this:
> > > $ ./gimp-2.9 --verbose >output.txt
> > >
> > > Then send me the output.txt after the crash occurs.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Jehan