#1 Gnomesword 0.3.0 Crashes on startup.

[Tim Hawes]

Gnomesword 0.3.0 w/ sword-1.5.1a on SuSE 6.4 Linux crashes on startup everytime. Previous releases have not done this.

I am a C/C++ programmer w/ no GUI programming experience, if there is any other info, or things I can try, let me know. Here is the the backtrace:

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gnomesword

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x406b7711 in free () at malloc.c:2952
2952 malloc.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) backtrace

0 0x406b7711 in free () at malloc.c:2952

1 0x403cef03 in g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0

2 0x809e396 in main ()

3 0x4067ea5e in __libc_start_main () at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:93

[Derek Neighbors]

Dont see a fix for this but it is now closed. This could just be an issue with sourceforge. However, I experienced same issue with RedHat 6.2 (helixcode GNOME).

Using;
gnomesword-0.3.7a-1
sword-1.5.1a-1

I installed the ISV module and the Websters module and it seemed to stop things from crashing. Perhaps putting a check for modules and giving a graceful message about not having modules installed would be better than a serious segfault. : )