#1305 Core dump with 0.97BETA-3 (x86_64) on Fedora 23

[Marco Guazzone]

Hi,

I've just updated my operating system to Fedora 23 64bit.
I've installed version 0.97BETA-3 x86_64 of password safe with the command:

sudo dnf install passwordsafe-0.97BETA-3.x86_64.rpm

This downloaded a couple of dependencies (wxGTK3, libyubikey, ...).

Unfortunately, when I run the program I get an "Aborted (core dumped)" error.

I attache the error and the strace file.

Thank you for the help.

Best,

Marco

[Marco Guazzone]

I've tried to build the RPM by myself and it works: pwsafe runs fine.

The only problem I had was during RPM building

  rpmbuild --clean -bb SPECS/passwordsafe.spec

where I got the following error:

  RPM build errors:
      Empty %files file /.../BUILD/passwordsafe-0.97BETA/debugfiles.list

I solved this error by disabling the building of debug RPMs, that is by adding the following line:

%debug_package %{nil}

to file ~/.rpmmacros.

Cheers,

Marco

[Rony Shapiro]

I've reproduced the crash, which appears to be due to an incompatability with the wx libraries. As you've found out, building from sources fixes this.

[Albert Vernon]

For anyone having this problem on Fedora 23, you can compile Password Safe yourself with these steps:

1. Install dependencies: sudo dnf install -y rpm-build gcc-c++ git libXt-devel libXtst-devel libuuid-devel libyubikey libyubikey-devel make wxBase3 wxGTK3 wxGTK3-devel xerces-c-devel ykpers ykpers-devel
2. Disable building of debug RPMs: echo '%debug_package %{nil}' >> ~/.rpmmacros
3. Download source RPM: wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/Linux-BETA/0.97/passwordsafe-0.97BETA-3.src.rpm/download -O passwordsafe-0.97BETA-3.src.rpm
4. Install source RPM: rpm -i passwordsafe-0.97BETA-3.src.rpm
5. Change to build directory: cd ~/rpmbuild
6. Build binary RPM: rpmbuild --clean -bb SPECS/passwordsafe.spec
7. Install binary RPM: sudo rpm -i RPMS/x86_64/passwordsafe-0.97BETA-3.x86_64.rpm

[rafaelx]

[ronys] Cmake already builds RPMs as well as debs ($ cpack -G RPM ..).