[92] in im locker bugs
Re: Gaim segfaults
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kathryn Hayes)
Thu Oct 2 01:39:16 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:36:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kathryn Hayes <hayes@cs.jhu.edu>
To: bug-im@mit.edu
cc: Kathryn A Hayes <khayes@mit.edu>, <aatharuv@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031002052904.GA12537@multics.mit.edu>
Thanks for filing the bug report.
Katie
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Arun A Tharuvai wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:54:21PM -0400, Kathryn A Hayes wrote:
> > When I run gaim, It segfaults almost immediately after logging me in,
> > every time I run it on way-mo-money.mit.edu. N.B.: I'm logging into
> > way-mo-money over an X connection from afar. I doubt this is what's
> > causing the error, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. I am logging in
> > to AIM and MSN when it cores on me. I've included the backtrace below.
> > If you want the core, I can give it to you. Also, here's some gdb
> > wickedness for your amusement from when I tried to run gaim from within
> > gdb:
>
> I compiled straight gaim 0.70, and it also coredumped on me, when
> logging in to MSN messenger on Solaris, with virtually the same error.
>
> I filed a sourceforge bug at
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=816354&group_id=235&atid=100235
>
> Arun
>
> > >> Gaim's DNS child got a SIGTRAP signal.
> > >> This can be caused by trying to run gaim inside gdb.
> > >> There is a known gdb bug which prevents this. Supposedly gaim
> > >> should have detected you were using gdb and used an ugly hack,
> > >> check cope_with_gdb_brokenness() in proxy.c.
> > >>
> > >> For more info about this bug, see
> > >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-07/msg00349.html
> >
> > Keep me posted.
> >
> > -Katie
>
>
>
