Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

[timecop <timecop@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please kindly use computers from this century.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Facundo Ferrer
<facundo.j.ferrer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Hi,
>   I have an Ubuntu distro:
>   facundo@uni-laptop:~$ uname -a
>   Linux uni-laptop 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34
>   UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>   I have installed gEDA from the Ubuntu repos. The version is quite old:
>   gEDA/gschem version 1.4.3.20081231
>   Today I downloaded the sources of version [1]1.6.0-20091004 from
>   [2]http://www.gpleda.org/sources.html, compiled and run all again.
>   The output was quite differente in drc2 check. Now the gnetlist finish
>   with 'Killed' instead of 'Buffer overflow' but anyway does not create
>   the netlist (the same output for drc2 and spice-sdb backends).
>   After that I realize that there is a 1.6.1 version (I didn't found
>   before I think there are bad links into the web) I repeat the same
>   steps but the problem persists.
>   A detail that previously I didn't mention is that some times (all
>   versions tested 1.4.3 1.6.0 & 1.6.1) after I ran gnetlist -gspice-sdb
>   ... and crash with Killed my windows manager crash too and I have to
>   reload it.
>   Thanks!
>
>   On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Peter Clifton <[3]pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>
>   wrote:
>
>   On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:54 -0300, Facundo Ferrer wrote:
>   > Hi again!
>   >    I have the following lines in my gnetlisrc:
>   >    (debug-options (list 'stack 200000))
>   >    (eval-options (list 'stack 200000))
>
>     This is a lame thing for me to suggest, since I don't _know_ of any
>     bug
>     which has been fixed which might be relevant - but you're using a
>     quite
>     old version of gEDA / gnetlist.
>     Could you try again with gEDA 1.6.1 ?
>     At the very least, you might find netlisting is a little quicker,
>     due to
>     some fixes by Peter Brett.
>     Let us know if you need a hand getting a later version of gEDA
>     installed
>     on your distro? (Let us know what distro that is, and how you got
>     gEDA
>     installed in the first place).
>     --
>     Peter Clifton
>     Electrical Engineering Division,
>     Engineering Department,
>     University of Cambridge,
>     9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
>     Cambridge
>     CB3 0FA
>     Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
>
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>   Facundo J Ferrer
>
> References
>
>   1. http://geda.seul.org/release/v1.6/1.6.0/
>   2. http://www.gpleda.org/sources.html
>   3. mailto:pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx
>   4. mailto:geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   5. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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