[Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

[Robert Fox]

On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 18:15 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:55:25 +0200
> Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 19:46 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > > On 19 June 2012 16:01, Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
> > > > So for some unexplained reason it segfaults and I have to start it
> > > > again.
> > > 
> > > Please:
> > > 1) install perl-debug glibc-debug perl-Glib-debug perl-Gtk2-debug
> > > gtk2.0-debug gdb
> > > 2) run "gdb perl /usr/bin/net_applet"
> > > 3) type "run" to start it from the debuger
> > > 4) type "bt" to get a backstrace once it segfaulted
> > > 5) paste the backtrace in a text file you'll _attach_ to a bug report
> > 
> That's the wrong way to invoke gdb. You need:
> 
> $ gdb /usr/bin/perl
> 
> And in the gdb prompt:
> 
> $ r /usr/bin/net_applet
> 
> You can also use a --command start-up flag for that.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
> 

Thanks Shlomi!  Here's the results - I guess I need to open a formal bug
now:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffe8043700 (LWP 5147)]
Perl_csighandler (sig=17, sip=<optimized out>, uap=<optimized out>) at
mg.c:1381
1381               (sig == SIGSEGV || (PL_signals &
PERL_SIGNALS_UNSAFE_FLAG)))
(gdb) bt
#0  Perl_csighandler (sig=17, sip=<optimized out>, uap=<optimized out>)
at mg.c:1381
#1  <signal handler called>
#2  0x00007ffff6a8f378 in __GI___poll (fds=<optimized out>,
nfds=<optimized out>, timeout=<optimized out>)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#3  0x00007ffff2b06ef6 in ?? () from /lib/../lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00007ffff2b0735a in g_main_loop_run ()
from /lib/../lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00007fffec67b4e6 in ?? () from /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00007ffff2b28ac5 in ?? () from /lib/../lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7  0x00007ffff6d51c7d in start_thread (arg=0x7fffe8043700) at
pthread_create.c:301
#8  0x00007ffff6a97f4d in clone ()
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112
#9  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

R.Fox