On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Joseph Simantov wrote:
Hi Folks, Has anybody tried to run QGIS (Quantum GIS) on Debian (latest version)/ultrasparc using either the Debian package or the recompiled source code? A 'bus error' appears everytime a graphic file is opened; any hint or help will be appreciated.
A 'bus error' message on sparc is usually a result of an attempt to read or write from/to an unaligned memory location. Sparc has strict alignment requirements, for example object of size 4 must be begin at a memory address divisible by 4, etc. The most common mistake leading to such a condition is casting the pointer to object of one size to a pointer to an object of larger size and dereferencing it.
You should try and rebuild the package in question with debugging symbols, try to run it under gdb and trigger a failure. The backtrace then should tell you where the problem is, usually it's enough to figure out what went wrong there.
Best regards Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC