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Re: Help with inkscape bug #303551



On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:16 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote:
> 
> In bug #303551 it was reported that inkscape segfaults on startup.
> strace output and a core file are attached to the bugreport. ltrace
> outputs nothing and never finishes. gdb however gives
> 
> > wolfi@halley:/tmp $ gdb -c inkscape_ppc_segfault.core
> > /usr/bin/inkscape
> > GNU gdb 6.3-debian
> > [...snip...]
> > Core was generated by `inkscape'.
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > #0 ?0x30009da0 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 ?0x30009da0 in ?? ()
> > #1 ?0x30009e7c in ?? ()
> > Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> 
> I can't reproduce this here on my PB, neither Guido Gnther could.
> We first thought that prelink could be the culprit, but this doesn't
> seem to be the case. So far it seems to be a problem unique to the
> submitter's setup but we don't know were to look at.
> 
> Can someone on this list reproduce this bug 

Not me.

> or has an idea how to debug this?

I recently encountered similarly mysterious crashes in some
applications. None of my debugging attempts seemed to make much sense,
so I ended up going through all the dependencies and reinstalling them
one at a time. Lo and behold, the crashes vanished after reinstalling
one of the library packages. So apparently the library had somehow got
corrupted on the filesystem.

No idea if this is a similar issue, but it's definitely something worth
trying I think.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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