Bugs item #798544, was opened at 2003-09-01 16:00
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ciprian Popovici (sfrowd)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Strange segfault with 0.65

Initial Comment:
I use Blackbox 0.65 compiled with gcc 3.3 on a system
equivalent to Red Hat 8.0 (or 9.0) -- I have updated by
RPM to the latest packages.

Blackbox has the win9x_buttons and flatborder patches
applied.

It has worked fine like this for a few months now. But
yesterday I got three unexpected crashes for no
apparent reason. Blackbox simply dies and dumps core at
seemingly random moments.

I managed to grab a backtrace from the core file, which
I have attached.

I can't reproduce the problem, it just happens.

FWIW, my ~/.blackboxrc is chmod 400, so it doesn't get
overwritten on exit.

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>Comment By: Ciprian Popovici (sfrowd)
Date: 2003-09-03 11:42

Message:
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It seems that the crash has something to do with passing
mem=nopentium to the kernel at boot time. I can't be 100%
sure that is the cause, but I noticed the crash happens
always when the machine was booted with mem=nopentium and
never without.

mem=nopentium helps me avoid some X freeze problems which
otherwise occur due to the NVidia video card + AMD processor
combination.

I've only recently started using mem=nopentium, that would
explain why the recent crashes.

I've grabbed a couple more gdb backtraces but they all look
different from each other. I'll attach them if needed.

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