[Scidpp-announce] segfaults r us

[Lionel <hay...@gm...>]

Having recently rebased the project to the latest upstream release and coincidentally upgraded to the latest Tcl/Tk release, we are experiencing the occasional segfault and consequent core dump. Based on long experience both with the upstream project and with Tcl/Tk, the odds are infinitely great that the problem is with the latest Tcl/Tk release.

We are Arch Linux users and are therefore living precariously on the bleeding edge of all things Linux and are therefore very likely to be the first to encounter a buggy release, but this release of Tcl/Tk (8.6.13) appears to be particularly buggy (even for the Tcl/Tk folks). We recommend that our users avoid this release until we can find the time to hunt down the problem. So far, we have not noticed any corrupted databases, but -- as always -- backups backups backups.


-- Lionel