----- "Matthias Ringwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI Lonny > > the first thing you do in gdb when you hit the problem is a stack > trace: bt > It will tell you the call chain. Your problem happens in strol_l which > > looks like a standard C lib function. As it should not contain bugs, > > it was probably called with an invalid pointer. You should find out, > > how is this. See the original source of your ffmpegthumbnailer. you > can set a break point a little before and check all variables (using > > print variable name) > > so. this might get you started. :) > > good luck, though,
Thanks Matthias I'll start hunting using your suggestions. My only real debugging has been with Perl so I'm pretty green but I've put some time into this already so I may as well try to get it working :-) -- Lonny ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
