Re: mc-2005-05-21-03: Segfault

[Meino Christian Cramer <Meino Cramer gmx de>]

From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>
Subject: Re: mc-2005-05-21-03: Segfault
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:55:59 +0300



> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I have a mysterious problem:
> >
> >  I compiled mc as well with my build script:
> >
> >    #!/bin/bash
> >    unset CFLAGS
> >    unset CXXFLAGS
> >    proj=$(basename `pwd`)
> >    ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls \
> >    --without-gnome \
> >    --without-ncurses \
> >    --with-screen=slang \
> >    --with-subshell \
> >    --with-gpm-mouse && \
> >    make && sudo paco -lp "$proj" "make install"
> >
> >  as weel with a plain './configure --prefix=/usr'. I tried to move my
> >  personal ~/.mc/. out of the way.
> >
> >  But regardless, what I am doing, mc segfaults directly after
> >  starting. No other action prior to the segfault has been noticed.
>
> I configured MC the same way you did, but it didn't crash. Please, fetch a
> current MC (CVS or http://pavelsh.pp.ru/mc/mc-4.6.1-pre4.tar.bz2) and try
> again.

I fetched that version configured and installed it as the cvs-version.
Same effect.

gdb output:
[139] mccramer solfire:~> gdb /usr/bin/mc
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/mc 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7d46d68 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xb7d46d68 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0xb7d45f6a in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7c794a7 in g_malloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00000006 in ?? ()
#4  0xb7e02cf8 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x08093100 in is_8bit_printable ()
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb)