Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist dumps core

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

As always, a backtrace from within gdb would say a lot.

Also, please post your schematic.

Thanks,

Stuart


> 
> Hello,
> 
> after successfully building the geda CVS version (files in CVS geda/devel
> as of 3rd of Feb. 05), I did a test with a simply schematic (only one 
> chip and
> a wire from one pin to another). gschem did fine, but gnetlist dumps 
> core when
> executing:
> 
> gnetlist -g PCBboard -o testschem.pcb testschem.sch
> testschem.sch is a valid file created using gschem from the same build.
> 
> gdb tells me:
> #0  0xb7e2f137 in g_list_find_custom () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> 
> I'm not used to analyize core dumps, but IMO this says that something
> with GTK+ went wrong.
> 
> Although this looks like being a GTK+ problem, I'm posting here
> because maybe someone has experienced the same troubles. Maybe
> the GTK+ package from Debian testing is broken ...
> 
> As already noted, my Linux distribution is Debian testing. I only
> installed packages from the Debian ftp sites (all packages up-to-date)
> and did not compile any software required by geda on my own.
> 
> How can I fix these problems?
> 
> with best regards
> Christoph
> 
>