Re: glib segfault

[Havoc Pennington <hp Mcs Net>]

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> I've totally rebuilt glib and libgnome, but conceivably I need to make
> clean in gtk/ORBit/imlib instead of relying on .deps, and that explains
> it. It doesn't look much like a need-to-rebuild segfault to me though.
> 

OK - on a completely different machine, total make-clean rebuild of all
libs, completely different program (Guppi instead of gnome-apt), I get the
same segv:

#0  0x405416c2 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x405958a0, p=0x8058938) at
malloc.c:2943
#1  0x40541581 in __libc_free (mem=0x8058940) at malloc.c:2867
#2  0x403eeacf in g_free (mem=0x8058940) at gmem.c:394
#3  0x403fd07a in g_get_any_init () at gutils.c:451
#4  0x403fd3c0 in g_get_home_dir () at gutils.c:544
#5  0x403c2df2 in gnomelib_init (app_id=0x8053df7 "guppi", 
    app_version=0x8053df1 "0.0.2") at gnomelib-init.c:138
#6  0x4007d1f5 in gnome_init_with_popt_table (app_id=0x8053df7 "guppi", 
    app_version=0x8053df1 "0.0.2", argc=1, argv=0xbffff808, options=0x0, 
    flags=0, return_ctx=0x0) at gnome-init.c:401
#7  0x4007d327 in gnome_init (app_id=0x8053df7 "guppi", 
    app_version=0x8053df1 "0.0.2", argc=1, argv=0xbffff808) at
gnome-init.c:445
#8  0x804fc1d in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff808) at guppi.cc:47


This is a Red Hat box, the other was Debian. So I think it's safe to say
this is not my app's fault. It may be some kind of C++ interaction, since 
other Gnome apps are not dying on startup. But in any case, it is broken.

Can I change bufsize = 1 to bufsize = 2? That fixes the problem. I know
it's a band-aid but the real bug is too mysterious for me.

I can patch locally but I'd like my apps to work for people other than me.
:-)

Thanks,
Havoc