Hi Dominik,
the output of gdb is attached. fvwm crashes regardless whether a
local .fvwm2rc is present or not. I hope you can make use of this
information.
I can do further debugging if I you can provide instructions or
variable to look at.
Thomas
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:15:15 +0200 Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:23:34PM +0200, T. Baumann wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > System is SUSE 9.3
> >
> > Problem: fvwm (cvs) from 2005-07-28 segfaults on startup -- 2.5.10 is
> > fine
> >
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /usr/bin/fvwm -d 0:0
> >
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x402f8348 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 0x402f8348 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> > #1 0x0805a6c5 in style_ids_are_equals (a={name = 0x1 > of bounds>, window_id = 0, flags = {has_name = 1, has_window_id = 0}},
> > b= {name = 0x810bde0 "*", window_id = 0, flags = {has_name = 1,
> > has_window_id = 0}}) at style.c:141
> > #2 0x08061660 in __style_command
> > (cond_rc=, exc=0x811f670, action= > out>, prefix=0x0, is_window_style=0) at style.c:4126
> > #3 0x08061843 in CMD_Style (cond_rc=0x810bde0, exc=0x810bde0, action=0x1
> > ) at style.c:5032
> > #4 0x080a89d3 in __execute_function (cond_rc=0x0, exc=0x811d230,
> > action=, exec_flags=0 '\0', args=0x0) at
> > functions.c:630
>
> > #5 0x080a92c2 in execute_function (cond_rc=0x810bde0, exc=0x810bde0,
> > action=0x1 , exec_flags=0 '\0') at
> > functions.c:1247
>
> I don't know what's happening. The "action" variable is screwed,
> but I don't see in the code how this can happen.
>
> If you know how to use gdb, could you debug this problem? It's a
> bit tricky to debug a window manager. One way is this:
>
> * Modify your ~/.xinitrc and replace the call to fvwm with
>"sleep 1".
>
> * Start the X server. It should hang in the sleep with an empty
>desktop.
>
> * Switch back to the text console.
>
> * Run gdb with
>
> $ gdb fvwm
>
> * Put a breakpoint in the function SetRCDefaults (the one from #5
>above).
>
> * Run fvwm with the command from your .xinitrc or just "fvwm":
>
> (gdb) run fvwm
>
> * Single step through the code from gdb and watch the action
>variable. When/why does it get the bogus value?
>
> (If you prefer a graphical debugger, you can start a second X
> server and start fvwm on that on with "fvwm -d ").
>
> > #6 0x0808e082 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfffefc4) at fvwm.c:1405
>
>
> Ciao
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
> --
> Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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