Re: Segmentation fault when

[Guido Trentalancia]

Updating to the latest ncurses patch did not resolve the issue...

On 25th January 2016 00:50:24 CET, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> It's lynx version 2.8.8 rel 2. It crashes upon starting up.
>
>But there are still unasked/unanswered questions: is this a package
>that you installed, or is it something that you compiled?   I have
>in mind this recent Red Hat bug which shows a problem with applications
>building against ncurses6 using the ncurses5 headers.
>
>       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270534
>
>If it's _that_, then the fix is mostly a packaging issue.
> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Il 23 gennaio 2016 23:27:39 CET, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> ha
>scritto:
>> >On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:37:53PM +0100, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >> 
>> >> I am hitting the following issue upon starting up the application
>> >(just
>> >> after the initial screen cleanup):
>> >> 
>> >> 0x00007ffff7779e06 in pnoutrefresh (win=0x8904b0, pminrow=0,
>> >pmincol=0, sminrow=0, smincol=0, smaxrow=55, smaxcol=179) at
>> >../../ncurses/base/lib_pad.c:224
>> >> 224                 NCURSES_CH_T ch = oline->text[j];
>> >> (gdb) where
>> >> #0  0x00007ffff7779e06 in pnoutrefresh (win=0x8904b0, pminrow=0,
>> >pmincol=0, sminrow=0, smincol=0, smaxrow=55, smaxcol=179) at
>> >../../ncurses/base/lib_pad.c:224
>> >> #1  0x000000000044a5e9 in LYrefresh ()
>> >> #2  0x000000000044d8d2 in statusline.part ()
>> >> #3  0x000000000042f54a in user_message ()
>> >> #4  0x0000000000438917 in getfile ()
>> >> #5  0x000000000043fb4b in mainloop ()
>> >> #6  0x000000000043d1ea in main (argc=<optimized out>,
>> >argv=0x7fffffffe6e8) at LYMain.c:2203
>> >> (gdb) print oline
>> >> $1 = (struct ldat *) 0x890520
>> >> (gdb) print oline->text
>> >> $2 = (chtype *) 0x1500891880
>> >> (gdb) print oline->text[0]
>> >> Cannot access memory at address 0x1500891880
>> >> 
>> >> Does anyone have an idea about what exactly is going on ?
>> >
>> >Not without seeing the program (a short example which demonstrates
>the
>> >problem is preferred).
>> >
>> >-- 
>> >Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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