Re: Xaralx on testing

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 21:36:24 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently, I upgraded my machine to testing from sarge. On sarge, xaralx
> (version 0.7 rev. 1764) would run without any issues. But after the upgrade,
> it segfaults.  Removed ~/..XARA-XTREME-WX-xaralx-mas and
> ~/.XaraLXFilters/. Still the same problem. Ran strace on xaralx and here
> are the last lines of the ouput:
> 
> ....
> fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=909044, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 935588, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 6,
> 0) = 0xb6fea000
> mmap2(0xb70c4000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 6, 0xd9) = 0xb70c4000
> mmap2(0xb70c9000, 22180, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb70c9000
> close(6) = 0
> mprotect(0xb70c4000, 12288, PROT_READ) = 0
> gettimeofday({1164678795, 243914}, NULL) = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> Process 3907 detached
> 
> Can someone point to me a solution for this problem?

Do you really need to have rev. 1764? The xaralx package 0.7r1692-2 from
the testing/non-free repository works fine for me.

How did you install the newer version? If you compiled it yourself then
you might simply have to recompile it for Etch.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian