Re: faxgetty exited on signal 6

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Lee Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/29/2016 04:45 PM, Ryan Noll wrote:
>>
>> The assertion that failed when running faxgetty interactively is
>>
>> Assertion failed: (x == lastx), function _TIFFFax3fillruns, file
>> tif_fax3.c, line 452.
>> Abort
>>
>> Now that was completely different then where I thought the abort would
>> occur. This would lead me to think that the problem may lay in the
>> version of libtiff that is installed. The version I have installed is
>> 4.04. I vaguely remember seeing some previous posts where HylaFax was
>> not compatible with some versions of libtiff. Did I read that
>> correctly? Does HylaFax+ have this same incompatibility?
>
>
> Every time libtiff advances a step HylaFAX has to react to it.  So, in the
> meantime there will be a libtiff version with which HylaFAX doesn't work.
> However, I don't know that to be the case with HylaFAX+ 5.5.8 or HylaFAX.org
> 6.0.6.  That said, I haven't used .org's releases since v4.2.5... so I don't
> really know.
>
> Yes, that assert message is coming from libtiff.  So, it would seem to be a
> bug in libtiff... or possibly in how HylaFAX is using libtiff.
>
> I would still recommend trying HylaFAX+.  If that fails then consider
> stepping-back through libtiff versions (you'll have to rebuild+reinstall
> HylaFAX after each) to see if the problem was introduced into libtiff
> relatively recently (like, since the v4.0 release... so step-back to the
> last v3).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee.

I will try HylaFax+. I hope to report back success, but I'll need to
test the build steps in a VM before I try it on a real box. (It has
been a while since I've installed something outside the ports tree.) I
hope to have something reported back because this may help someone
else.

Thank you for the assistance.

Ryan


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