Bug 82258 – mc segfaults when starting

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Zoltan NAGY 2005-02-16 09:05:40 UTC]

after emerge sync && emerge world, slang got emerged,
and mc got upgraded;
however, after the upgrade, when I start mc it just segfaults.

no error message, or anything.

if I do mcedit something, then I get:
Warning: file /var/tmp/portage/mc-4.6.0-r13/image//usr/share/mc/extfs/extfs.ini not found
Warning: file /var/tmp/portage/mc-4.6.0-r13/image//usr/share/mc/extfs/sfs.ini not found
Warning: file /var/tmp/portage/mc-4.6.0-r13/image//usr/share/mc/mc.charsets not found

however, when I do:
USE="-slang" emerge mc,
then it works.. 

thanks for your help!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run mc
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
it just segfaulted :)


Expected Results:  
start, with two panels..


it's x86, emerged a few minutes ago, compiled with -O2 -pip -march=pentium3
-fomit-frame-pointer

[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-02-19 12:01:06 UTC]

*** Bug 78331 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-02-19 12:01:28 UTC]

seems to be slang/unicode related

[Comment 3 Meder Bakirov 2005-02-20 21:36:46 UTC]

I can confirm that mc works fine with USE="-slang" (i.e. without slang support)

[Comment 4 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-03-02 00:49:46 UTC]

*** Bug 83709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-06-06 04:45:32 UTC]

does recompiling help? 

[Comment 6 Johan Swensson 2005-06-16 04:52:31 UTC]

It works for me with slang

[Comment 7 Piotrek 2006-01-19 01:30:40 UTC]

I had the same problem( on gentoo 2005.1)  after emerge world and slang emerged my mc is segfaulting too.
When i run gdb mc && run i'am getting 0xb7d9a513 in strlen() from () /lib/libc/so.6

[Comment 8 Piotrek 2006-01-19 08:03:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I had the same problem( on gentoo 2005.1)  after emerge world and slang emerged
> my mc is segfaulting too.
> When i run gdb mc && run i'am getting 0xb7d9a513 in strlen() from ()
> /lib/libc/so.6
> 
Ok I solved problem. I have  emerged  mc without slang flag(USE="-X -slang")
Then i have runned mc closed him and re-emrged again with USE="-pam" 
And mc is working with slang support is not segfaulting no more.

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-17 13:03:44 UTC]

Please, try with mc-4.6.1 and latest slang (1.4.9-r2) and report back. Thanks.