SEGFAULT when importing old (binary) files

Bill Gribble grib@gnumatic.com
Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:27:31 -0600


On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:16:28AM -0600, linas@linas.org wrote:
> There's a whole variety of core dumps when importing old files
> with the current cvs version.  Many of these happen when
> tryig to generate a report. 

Linas, the segfaults when trying to generate reports are a bug in
gtkhtml.  It's fixed in their CVS version, and (I believe) in the
packages that Jim LewisMoss is distributing.

The proximate problem is that our reports tend to generate totally
empty table cells which gtkhtml could not handle.  Hello, SIGSEGV.

b.g.