On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 20:50 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Hello, > > some weeks ago I installed gEDA 1.4 shipped with Gentoo-Linux (AMD64). > > gschen was working fine. > > Now I cant start gschem any more. > > Trying to start from Bash shell pops up a window, which immediately > closes again. There is no message concerning the problem in gschem.log. > I tried option -v, but this makes no difference. I have removed .gEDA/ > -- no difference. I have used Gentoo's "revdep-rebuild" command to check > for library inconsistency -- no success. > > I guess that complete reinstall of gEDA will fix the problem, but before > I will try to find the reason for the bug. > > I do not know much about gdb... > > Tried "gdb gschem" which gives this output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gdb gschem > GNU gdb 6.7.1 > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show > copying" > and "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"... > (no debugging symbols found) > Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". > (gdb) run > Starting program: /usr/bin/gschem > (no debugging symbols found)
Without debug symbols, this will be hard to trace further. > ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x00002b8467b7f356 in g_make_page_smob () from /usr/lib/libgeda.so.33 > (gdb) Is it possible that something upgraded guile? I'm guessing wildly here, but looking at g_make_page_smob, it only calls: scm_must_malloc sets some values in the returned smob (after having _not_ checked if the allocation succeeded), then returns via (the macro?) SCM_RETURN_NEWSMOB() Does running under valgrind give any more enlightening output as to where the bad memory was allocated? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
