Re: crash when changing to another track

[Rafaël C. <raf...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> This has happened to me before (core dump due to sig6 in cmus), but I
> couldn't pinpoint *when* during the execution the crash happened.
> 
> This time, I was playing a track and when cmus should have continued
> with the next track in the next album of the same artist, it crashed.
> 
> Maybe I'll install a libc with symbols later today. But, to be honest,
> this crash is *very* non-reproducible. It happens to me like very four
> month. And cmus is running all the time. So don't expect an update
> anytime soon...

Did you try running cmus in valgrind ?
If the bug is not (easily) reproducible, it's a race condition, and
valgrind could help you detect invalid memory access before crashing.

Just my few cents, I have not experimented any crash in months using
cmus ;)

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Rafaël Carré