Bug#279042: xdvi: xdvi.bin terminated abnormally: 11

[Thomas Heimroth <theimrot@gmx.de>]

Hello Frank!

For the answers, you have to look at bottom:

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:35PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Thomas Heimroth <theimrot@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Frank!
> >
> > Thank you, that you remember me. Yes, i have the same problem. I help me, that i
> > do an alias in my .bashrc:
> >
> > alias xdvi='xdvi.real'
> >
> > Than it start right, but natural this is not the solution. When you betray the
> > hint, i'm happy.
> 
> Betray heißt betrügen, nicht beitragen ;-).
> 
> Okay, some more debugging questions.  
> 
> The first I already asked, but the answer isn't clear from the bug
> report: If there is a file .xdvirc in your home directory, please rename
> it to something else (like xdvirc without the dot), and then run
I don't have an .xdvirc

> 
> /usr/bin/xdvi
> 
> i.e. without a filename.  Does it also give an error, or does a file
> open dialog pop up?
no error, an open dialog pop up comes. But when i select a file, this message
comes:

[07:04:31]tchino@mainstation:~/]
command12$ /usr/bin/xdvi
*** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid next size: 0x081f0400 ***
xdvi: xdvi.bin terminated abnormally: 6

> 
> Second, just for bug housekeeping, what is the output of
> 
> dpkg -l tex-common tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra
> 
[07:01:28]tchino@mainstation:~/]
command7$ dpkg -l tex-common tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra
Gewünscht=Unbekannt/Installieren/R=Entfernen/P=Säubern/Halten
| Status=Nicht/Installiert/Config/U=Entpackt/Fehlgeschl. Konf./Halb install.
|/ Fehler?=(keiner)/Halten/R=Neuinst. notw/X=beides (Status, Fehler:
GROß=schlecht)
||/ Name                     Version                  Beschreibung
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
ii  tetex-base               2.0.2c-9                 Basic library files of
teTeX
ii  tetex-bin                2.0.2-31                 The teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-extra              2.0.2c-9                 Additional library files
of teTeX
un  tex-common               <keine>                  (keine Beschreibung
vorhanden)

> Finally and most interesting, we repeat the strace call, but now with
> more clever options:
> 
> strace -ff -o xdvi.trace /usr/bin/xdvi
> 
the same error, looks up.

> (or, if a filename is needed to trigger the problem, with some dvi file
> name added at the end).  This will result in three files, one named
> xdvi.trace, and two more with some number added at the end
> (xdvi.trace.7889 or the like).  Please send us the three files.
> 
> Regards, Frank
> 
hello Frank. I have a curious error under kde 3.5.1. Where can i send the error
message. Under:

de.comp.os.unix.apps.kde
linux.debian.user.german

i get no answer.

bye thomas
> -- 
> Frank Küster
> Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
> Debian Developer (teTeX)
> 

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