Re: Some test applications fail with segfault - gnustep 0.19/0.18

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 May 2008, at 21:53, Tavs wrote:

> --#System: FC8, libcombo with gnu-gnu-gnu and libffi
>
> The following test( in gnustep-base/Test/) applications fail  
> displaying
> "Segmentation Fault"
> -nsconnection
> -nsinvocation
> -nsnotification
>
> this one
> -nsmethodsignature
> throws the NSInvalidArgumentException with the following message
> "Attempt to contact a named host using a message port name server.   
> This
> name server can only be used to contact processes owned by the same  
> user on
> the local host (host name must be an empty string).  To contact  
> processes
> owned by other users or on other hosts you must use an instance of the
> NSSocketPortNameServer class. (nil)"
>
> It seems that I've got gdomap, gpbs and gdnc to work, though I'm not  
> sure
> about that.
>
> What should I do to solve the problem?

It's really a bug in the oobsolete/unmaintained test code (the README  
file should in the directory should tell you where to look for the  
current testsuite).

However, I hacked in a quick fox for this in svn ... you just need to  
change the '@"*"' value of the host in  
rootProxyForConnectionWithRegisteredName:host: to be 'nil'