Re: SEGFAULT when starting applications

[Erik Dalen]

sometimes I can get similar problems when upgrading a library. But If I do
a 'make distclean' and recompile the whole library (or application), it
starts working again.

/Erik


On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> is problem has just started today.   I normally update from CVS everyday.  I
> am having the following problem:
>
> [heron@genoa Ink]$ debugapp Ink.app
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> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols
> found)...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program:
> /home/heron/gnustep/usr-apps/examples/gui/Ink/Ink.app/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/Ink
>
> [New Thread 1024 (LWP 3037)]
> 02 28 00:05:01 Ink[3037] Warning - ignoring old defaults database in
> /home/heron/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults
> 02 28 00:05:01 Ink[3037] Warning - ignoring old defaults database in
> /home/heron/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 3037)]
> 0x401d6c25 in +[NSWindow frameRectForContentRect:styleMask:] (self=0x402e1500,
> _cmd=0x402e2488, aRect={origin = {x = 0, y = 0}, size = {
>         width = 64, height = 64}}, aStyle=64) at
> ../Headers/AppKit/DPSOperators.h:2546
> 2546      (ctxt->methods->DPSstyleoffsets_____)
> Current language:  auto; currently objective-c
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x401d6c25 in +[NSWindow frameRectForContentRect:styleMask:]
> (self=0x402e1500, _cmd=0x402e2488, aRect={origin = {x = 0, y = 0},
>       size = {width = 64, height = 64}}, aStyle=64) at
> ../Headers/AppKit/DPSOperators.h:2546
> #1  0x401d7b0d in -[NSWindow
> initWithContentRect:styleMask:backing:defer:screen:] (self=0x8149940,
> _cmd=0x402908b0, contentRect={
>       origin = {x = 0, y = 0}, size = {width = 64, height = 64}}, aStyle=64,
> bufferingType=NSBackingStoreRetained, flag=0, aScreen=0x0)
>     at NSWindow.m:790
> #2  0x400c6f4a in -[NSApplication(Private) _appIconInit] (self=0x812e400,
> _cmd=0x4028f940) at NSApplication.m:2372
> #3  0x400c0e0c in -[NSApplication finishLaunching] (self=0x812e400,
> _cmd=0x4028fc48) at NSApplication.m:577
> #4  0x400c20fa in -[NSApplication run] (self=0x812e400, _cmd=0x4028d340) at
> NSApplication.m:905
> #5  0x400ba3fe in NSApplicationMain (argc=1, argv=0xbfffee44) at 
> Functions.m:75
> #6  0x804a589 in main ()
> #7  0x4058bbaf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb)
>
> gcc version:
>
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs
> gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
>
> OS: SuSE Linux 7.1
>
> I am currently looking into the problem, but I wanted to post to the list to
> determine if anyone else is seeing this...
>
> Thanks, GJC
>
>
>
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