Re: xedit segfault on open

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello Riccardo,

On Wed, 2025-10-15 at 13:57 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> given the editor crisis I have currently on debian/sparc64, I tried to 
> install classic xedit
> 
> It does crash witha large file:
> 
> $ xedit log.diff
> Bus error                  xedit log.diff
> 
> xedit alone works. X11 display is remote, being this a T2000
> 
> xedit with file, crashes
> 
> gdb:
> 
> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> 0x0000010000069694 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000010000069694 in ?? ()
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

Try installing the x11-apps-dbgsym package and set "ulimit -c unlimited" to
capture a core dump. Then load it into GDB and see if you get something
usable.

Adrian

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