Re: crash when editing from a search in certain conditions

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, wwp wrote:

> using mc 2006-08-12-18 on a FC5 box, I get a crash w/ a specific scenario:
>
> - be in /tmp/anydiryoulike
> - create a subdir es/ (/tmp/anydiryoulike/es/)
> - touch es/foobar
> - launch mc
> - search for file * (default search options)
> - search results should show: es, foobar in es/
> - move the cursor on es/foobar, press F4 to edit
> - bang
>
> It seems that the subdir name (es/) matters!

Using MC from cvs I cannot reproduce the crash. Here is
the output of "mc -V":

GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1a
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish
With builtin Editor
Using included S-Lang library with terminfo database
With optional subshell support
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
Data types: char 8 int 32 long 32 void * 32 off_t 64 ecs_char 8

> Is there anything I can provide more than this incomplete backtrace (mc
> compiled w/ -g, `make install` no strip).

CFLAGS="-g -O0" ./configure ; make

> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x0060a402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> (gdb)
> (gdb) bt full
> #0  0x0060a402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #1  0x00650069 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #2  0x00651671 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #3  0x00684a4b in __libc_message () from /lib/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #4  0x0068c660 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #5  0x0068dc74 in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6

Seems like a call to malloc() fails. Maybe some chunk of
memory was overwritten or misused in some other way, maybe
it is just lack of memory. Does it crash consistently ?