Raphael Manfredi wrote:
> Quoting Meelis Roos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel:
> :I have seen current SVN gtk-gnutella crashing abour weekly with UDP 
> :processing problems. This time I finally got a readable backtrace and 
> :crash location (by the way, I had to comment out the crash handler to 
> :get sensible core dumps):
> :
> :Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> :#0  dht_find_bucket (id=0xbff39f9c) at routing.c:1206
> :1206                            result = (val & mask) ? kb->one : kb->zero;
> :
> :So kb seems to be NULL...
> 
> That's not possible unless `root' is also NULL.  But otherwise kb can never
> be NULL (since we escape the inner loop as soon as `result' is NULL).
> 
> However, `root' is only reset back to NULL in dht_close().  So if it is
> becoming NULL during operations, it means there is a memory corruption.

Have you considered that this code is reached even if dht_initialize()
was never called?
 
> I am not experiencing any problem with the DHT code here and I have very large
> uptimes (> 30 days).  The only time I stop gtk-gnutella is when I need to
> upgrade...  And I naturally switched the DHT code on!

Yes, but it's disabled by default for many good reasons. Also you can neither
disable or enable it during run-time because the code is widely ignorant of
the setting causing crashes when changed at run-time.

-- 
Christian

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