Re: [Monotone-devel] A cornucopia of issues

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:01:20AM -0600, Ryan Hinton wrote:
> >>I can send a core dump if that would be useful.  Any suggestions on 
> >>getting the monotone source?  Is there any way to do a partial pull?
> monotone: fatal: std::bad_alloc: St9bad_alloc
> 
> The "St9bad_alloc" is interesting.  But I've seen that "lua isfunction() 
> failed" before without ill effect.  Any ideas?  If this is the wrong 
> output, I would appreciate any pointers on how to capture the right output.

It's whatever's throwing a std::bad_alloc (=St9bad_alloc) that's
causing the problem here.  Unfortunately, the --debug output doesn't
seem to reveal it, and a core file won't help (since we need to know
where the std::bad_alloc was thrown from, but by the time we would get
a core file, we've already unwound the stack and cleaned things up).
I'm not sure there's anything that can be done except running under
gdb, and doing something like:
  (gdb) b main
  (gdb) r <program arguments>
  (gdb) catch throw
  (gdb) c
  (gdb) bt

-- Nathaniel

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