Bug 61411 – insight 6.1 segfaults often

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Gulotta 2004-08-23 11:31:02 UTC]

insight 6.1 crashes often with a segmentation fault.

Opening an executable for debugging after insight has started results in a segmentation fault in
#0  0x08096ab9 in do_exec_error_cleanups ()

I also get a segmentation fault while using the watch window.
#0  0x00000974 in ?? ()
#1  0x0830f6de in Tcl_FindCommand ()
#2  0xbfffe214 in ?? ()


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.8-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aim alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt dvd emacs encode esd foomaticdb gdbm
gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla
mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime
readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-08-23 18:30:28 UTC]

tester, can you slap a metadata.xml file in there

[Comment 2 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-08-23 18:55:18 UTC]

Do you have any specific case that would allow me to reproduce this bug? Did it happen with older versions?

[Comment 3 Daniel Gulotta 2004-08-23 20:51:34 UTC]

The bug is also present in 6.0 but not 5.2.1.

I can't find any instance where the crash happens 100% of the time, but if I try to open a executable from the File -> Open dialog, I get a segmentation fault about 20% of the time.  The other 80% of the time, I get the error message
"Error loading [filename]: No such file or directory."

[Comment 4 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-08-23 22:04:21 UTC]

thanks for the details, I can reproduce it, I'll see what I can do.. but it does look like an upstream bug.. 

[Comment 5 Daniel Gulotta 2004-08-25 12:36:12 UTC]

I just re-compiled insight 6.1 without any patches, and now the bug no longer occurs.

[Comment 6 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-08-25 12:58:23 UTC]

you mean without  gdb-6.x-crash.patch ? (this fixes another crash....)

[Comment 7 Daniel Gulotta 2004-08-25 13:06:36 UTC]

Yes.  I downloaded the source tarball from Red Hat and installed from that.

[Comment 8 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-11-04 12:30:53 UTC]

Alright.. I removed the patch for now... trying to get a fixed version of the patch.