gnucash-user Digest, Vol 40, Issue 30

[Derek Atkins]

I'd start with memtest86 and checking your hardware..

-derek

"David Zeigler" <dzeigler at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Any ideas on what might be causing these segfaults?  I realize it may
> not be a gnucash problem after seeing the backtrace, but any pointers
> on how I might prevent these crashes (or where else I should ask)
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks again,
> David
>
>> On 7/20/06, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:
>> > Huh.  I never saw anything like this during the 1.9.x ebuilds or now
>> > with the 2.0.0 ebuild.
>> >
>> > Perhaps you can run gnucash from gdb and get a backtrace at the point it
>> > crashes?
>> >
>> >     $ /usr/bin/gnucash-env gdb /usr/bin/gnucash-bin
>> >     [gdb starts up]
>> >     (gdb) run
>> >     [gnucash output, crash]
>> >     (gdb) bt
>>
>> Sure.  Here are the results.  The first is the complete output from
>> opening gnucash and then closing it.  The second is partial output
>> from opening gnucash and then opening the Interest Payment window.
>>
>> 1)
>>  $ /usr/bin/gnucash-env gdb /usr/bin/gnucash-bin
>> GNU gdb 6.4
>> Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)
>> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
>>
>> (gdb) run
>> Starting program: /usr/bin/gnucash-bin
>> (no debugging symbols found)
>> ... <snipped repeated line>
>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>> [New Thread -1233484112 (LWP 14915)]
>> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
>> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
>> gnucash: [M] "Found Finance::Quote version ""1.11"
>>
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> [Switching to Thread -1233484112 (LWP 14915)]
>> 0xb6845003 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0xb6845003 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> #1  0xb72ab1ee in giop_send_buffer_append_string ()
>>    from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
>> #2  0x00000000 in ?? ()
>> (gdb) continue
>> Continuing.
>> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
>> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
>>
>> Program exited with code 01.
>>
>> 2) When I load the Interest Payment window in gdb, I get the following:
>>
>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>> [New Thread -1233189200 (LWP 15203)]
>> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
>> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
>> gnucash: [M] "Found Finance::Quote version ""1.11"
>>
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> [Switching to Thread -1233189200 (LWP 15203)]
>> 0xb71bced5 in gtk_tree_model_sort_convert_child_iter_to_iter ()
>>    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
>>
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0xb71bced5 in gtk_tree_model_sort_convert_child_iter_to_iter ()
>>    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>> David
>>
>>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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