#37 Crashes (Segmentation Fault) on startup

[Anonymous]

Before it displays any windows it crashes. Version is
0.7.9 from the debian packages. It's always done this,
for every version for me, I'm running debian unstable
on an amd thunderbird 700mhz with 628MB. I'm running
NVIDIA's drivers with a geforce 4 agp 128mb ddr ram
video card. Running XFree86 Version 4.3.0 That's all
I can think of that would be useful for you guys.. good
luck, I'll keep checking back for new versions.. if you
guys have any information please e-mail me
(joel@dh-network.com) Thanks.

Joel Hanger

[Andy Piper]

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We really need a bit more information.

Can you run it from a terminal and see if there is any
interesting output?

Can you run it through strace and provide us with the last
few lines of output?

Can you run it from gdb and let us see a backtrace?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Gnome gnomesword2 2.0.0 build from tarball
sword-1.5.7-1 - rpm package
sword-devel-1.5.7-1 - rpm package

gnomesword2 configures builds and installs with no warnings.
Segfaults immediately upon running (window is visible for a
second) gnome crash dialog appears.

-ry

[Andy Piper]

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Do you have any SWORD modules installed?

Run gnomesword from a terminal. What is the output?

Could you please run gnomesword under gdb. When it crashes,
type 'bt' for a backtrace and paste the output here.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi,

Sorry I didn't offer more info to begin with. I've gotten
yelled at by developers for providing one or the other (gdb
or strace) so I'm reluctant to flood ;-)

You may have both.

http://ruinaudio.com/gs2straceout.txt
http://ruinaudio.com/gs2gdbout.txt

thanks and God bless,
-ry

ryanpg at yahoo dot com

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Darn,

I didn't look at the dates of followups before I posted.

I'll answer your questions too.

Do you have any SWORD modules installed?

I unzipped KJV.zip in /usr/share/sword (which is the
DataPath specified in /etc/sword.conf).

Run gnomesword from a terminal. What is the output?

[root@ruin root]# gnomesword2
gnomesword-2.0.0
sword-1.5.6
Initiating Sword

System locale is en_US.UTF-8
Sword locale is en
Checking for SWORD Modules

Number of Text modules = 1
Number of Commentary modules = 0
Number of Dict/lex modules = 0
Number of Book modules = 0
Number of Percomm modules = 0
Number of Devotion modules = 0

Building GnomeSword interface
Initiating GnomeSword

Displaying GnomeSword

I didn't want to fill up the screen with gdb/strace stuff so
I put the output on my website.

Thanks,
-ry

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Grr...

One more thing I forgot. I compiled sword API by hand
(thinking the rpm might have been trashed) which is why CLI
says sword 1.5.6. The segfault happens with the rpm or hand
rolled sword.

-ry

[Andy Piper]

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The most recent bug reported here (i.e. the one reported by
ryanpg) is fixed in current CVS. Thanks for the gdb
backtrace, that confirmed that it is the same issue reported
by others.

Need more info on the original bug (0.7.9 version).

[Andy Piper]

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E-mailed Joel asking for more information on the original
problem.

[Andy Piper]

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Joel is unable to give any further information at this time
so I am closing this due to lack of diagnostic information
and the version of GnomeSword being backlevel.