RE: Midnight Commander Startup Bug

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

the "--with-debug" compile fails so this might be ugly.

[root@george /root]# gdb gmc
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) set args=--sync
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gmc =--sync
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.13

GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 131 (g_hash_table_lookup): assertion
`hash_table != NULL' failed.

GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 131 (g_hash_table_lookup): assertion
`hash_table != NULL' failed.

GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 131 (g_hash_table_lookup): assertion
`hash_table != NULL' failed.

** WARNING **: Getgroups should be used here


Gdk-ERROR **: an x io error occurred
aborting...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x4044a811 in __kill ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x4044a811 in __kill ()
#1  0x4044a63f in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27
#2  0x4044b84f in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:83
#3  0x4040294b in g_logv ()
#4  0x40402a16 in g_log ()
#5  0x402ce515 in gdk_x_io_error ()
#6  0x40337925 in _XIOError ()
#7  0x403356d5 in _XRead ()
#8  0x403350ce in _XEventsQueued ()
#9  0x4032a674 in XPending ()
#10 0x402da8e9 in gdk_event_prepare ()
#11 0x40400513 in g_main_iterate ()
#12 0x404009a1 in g_main_run ()
#13 0x4023066b in gtk_main ()
#14 0x80a3948 in gtkrundlg_event ()
#15 0x80682f3 in run_dlg ()
#16 0x80a3c88 in create_panels ()
#17 0x806463d in suspend_cmd ()
#18 0x8064d03 in midnight_callback ()
#19 0x80658fe in main ()
(gdb)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Miguel de Icaza [SMTP:miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx]
> Sent:	Friday, February 12, 1999 1:37 PM
> To:	KMFox@mail.bhi-erc.com
> Cc:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: Midnight Commander Startup Bug
> 
> 
> Hello Kevin,
> 
>    I still can not reproduce this problem you describe.  I am now in
> the process of reinstalling my whole gnome setup again to make sure I
> am not running something old.
> 
>    Now, I need you to run gmc under gdb with the --sync option and
> when you get the crash in gdb, you need to use the "where" command to
> see, well, where the crash happened :-)
> 
> Miguel.