bidwatcher segfaults on startup: $ gdb bidwatcher GNU gdb 6.4 This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/bidwatcher (no debugging symbols found) [2006-07-16 14:05:00] bidwatcher 1.3.17 is GPL'd and has NO WARRANTY; press the ABOUT button for details [2006-07-16 14:05:00] Help us: please report ALL bugs at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bidwatcher Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7c23441 in gtk_clist_undo_selection () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (gdb) where #0 0xb7c23441 in gtk_clist_undo_selection () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #1 0x08088eb0 in ?? () #2 0x0808b578 in ?? () #3 0xb7d339e8 in _gtk_private_n_signals () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #4 0xb7cbaf4f in gtk_signal_remove_emission_hook () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #5 0xb7bddfd8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #6 0xb7d2f05c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #7 0x080b2cb8 in ?? () #8 0xb7d2f05c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #9 0x08088eb0 in ?? () #10 0x0000000f in ?? () #11 0xbfbd1370 in ?? () #12 0xb7c82011 in gtk_marshal_NONE__POINTER () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #13 0x08088eb0 in ?? () #14 0x0808b578 in ?? () #15 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) This is from a fresh install with no ~/.bidwatcher directory. Even if bidwatcher did correctly start, would it still work with the current eBay? JBidWatcher has a new release as of March 2006 to cope with eBay's changes. I think this package needs to be upgraded (if still maintained upstream) or removed...
This package is indeed scheduled to be removed, thanks to this bug and a couple others. From package.mask: # Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> (16 Jul 2006) # Treecleaners masking net-misc/bidwatcher; buggy as hell # bugs # 94781,107169,140630. net-misc/bidwatcher
Removing from portage, it's useless.
