Re: gEDA-user: gschem regularly segfaults on OpenBSD

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 15, 2006, at 5:10 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 10:27 +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> > I have gschem 20060123
>
> Sorry,... I mis-read your version number. That is a fairly old  
> version,
> and it sounds like you may be suffering the "autosave" crash. This was
> fixed in CVS on 2006-09-04, I think the latest release was  
> 20061020. It
> is entirely possible that BSD makes the fairly rare autosave crash  
> more
> repeatable. (Wish I'd known that when I was trying to track it down!)

20060123 suffered from the infamous slice bug. That caused frequent  
crashes with some glib versions. Karel, try:

export G_SLICE=always-malloc

(or if you're using csh, "setenv G_SLICE always-malloc")

before invoking gschem.

Gschem 20060123 is incompatible with newer glib's, but this fixes it.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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