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Re: biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable



* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:

> NULL pointer derreference.

> Install the -dbg packages for all libraries used by biber, compile biber
> with full debug information, and try running texl (the binary which is
> segfaulting) under gdb (maybe using xgdb or ddd to make it easier).  You
> should be able to pinpoint what function of libc it is calling with a NULL
> pointer.

> Maybe you can even find that out by just using "ltrace" instead of strace
> and gdb on the binary with full debug information...

Thank you very much for your answer, Henrique! I'll forward your answer
to the author of biber and hope that it can be fixed soon.

Best regards,
Marcus
-- 
"As the water flows over the bridge,
As we walk on the floodland,
As we walk on the water, we forget."


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