Re: Segfault: latest Path and Utilities issues

[David Chisnall]

When I’ve seen crashes like this, they have been caused by one of two things:

1) Stack corruption from something earlier.
2) Linking two versions of the same shared library with the same executable.

David

> On 15 Feb 2016, at 10:58, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> right now all GS applications crash for me on startup:
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to LWP 1]
> 0xbb396986 in NSUserName () at NSPathUtilities.m:1638
> 1638    {
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xbb396986 in NSUserName () at NSPathUtilities.m:1638
> #1  0xbb428e87 in -[NSUserDefaults init] (self=0xb8ab5090,
>    _cmd=0xbb6700b8 <_OBJC_SELECTOR_TABLE+472>) at NSUserDefaults.m:1179
> #2  0xbb4298a4 in +[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] (
>    self=0xbb670380 <_OBJC_Class_NSUserDefaults>,
>    _cmd=0xbb670098 <_OBJC_SELECTOR_TABLE+440>) at NSUserDefaults.m:847
> #3  0xbb42bb8e in GSPrivateDefaultsFlag (address@hidden)
>    at NSUserDefaults.m:2208
> #4  0xbb378a1e in _NSLog_standard_printf_handler (
>    message=0xbb64b060 <_OBJC_INSTANCE_1>) at NSLog.m:184
> #5  0xbb3b928a in +[NSProcessInfo processInfo] (
>    self=0xbb64ac80 <_OBJC_Class_NSProcessInfo>,
>    _cmd=0xbb642770 <_OBJC_SELECTOR_TABLE+400>) at NSProcessInfo.m:1015
> #6  0xbb396d3d in InitialisePathUtilities () at NSPathUtilities.m:1154
> #7  0xbb39e5fb in GSDefaultsRootForUser (address@hidden)
>    at NSPathUtilities.m:1883
> #8  0xbb429374 in -[NSUserDefaults initWithUser:] (address@hidden,
>    address@hidden <_OBJC_SELECTOR_TABLE+680>, userName=0xb8a03870)
>    at NSUserDefaults.m:1264
> #9  0xbb428e94 in -[NSUserDefaults init] (self=0xb8ab5050,
>    _cmd=0xbb6700b8 <_OBJC_SELECTOR_TABLE+472>) at NSUserDefaults.m:1179
> #10 0xbb4298a4 in +[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] (
>    self=0xbb670380 <_OBJC_Class_NSUserDefaults>,
> 
> That the crash happens on a curly brace is a mystery... I can only suppose 
> that I don't get back a valid NSUsername() anymore.
> 
> Richard, does everything work for you? Did you try any GUI app?
> This is with NetBSD/x86/gcc here.
> 
> Riccardo
> 
> 
> 
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