Re: Gabber, GNOME & FreeBSD

[Yukihiro Nakai <nakai gnome gr jp>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:28:24 -0600
Erich Zigler <needo superhero org> wrote:

> Hello, 
>  I am currently the MAINTAINER for the port of Gabber
> (http://gabber.sourceforge.net) to FreeBSD. I am currently working on a very
> odd problem that I and many other FreeBSD users are experiencing. 
> 
>  When Gabber loads the beginning menu is displayed, but after you login it
> segfaults with the following gdb backtrace...
> 
> #0  0x28c0e7a3 in getenv () from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
> #1  0x2881aa5d in guess_category_value () from /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1
> #2  0x2881a36a in dcgettext__ () from /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1
> #3  0x2881ab0c in dgettext__ () from /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1
> #4  0x2881ab38 in gettext__ () from /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1
> #5  0x28819ffe in gettext () from /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1
> #6  0x80c0efb in GabberWin::OnSessionConnected (this=0x8390a00,
> t= 0x838b200)
>     at GabberWin.cc:302
> 
> This is Gabber 0.8.1, for the record. I thought that there was something
> wrong with my gettext installation so I wrote a small getenv() test program
> which is as follows...
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> main() {
>   printf("HOME=%s\n", getenv("HOME"));
>   }
> 
> This worked flawlessly, even compiled with the most absurd optimizations I
> could think of. 
> 
> I then decided that it may be the way gettext is implemented in Gabber so I
> went and removed all the _()'s. This had no affect. It still segfaulted when
> a gnome lib made a getenv() call.
> 
> I have talked with the Gabber Developers, some FreeBSD Developers, and some 
> GNOME Developers, but all our efforts have been unsuccessful. 
> 
> I was hoping someone here could provide me with some more information, or if
> they have had this problem before to help me solve it.
> 
> Thank you very much.

Hmm, I've got such strange behavior with old gdm. (putenv or setenv func.)
So, how about when you get getenv func source code in FreeBSD libc and link
directly the gabber? or how about when you write a fake getenv func?

--
Yukihiro Nakai