Re: Re: Netsaint doesn't start anymore ! (SIGSEGV)

Dear Sir,

I am writing to say that you may want to 

1 Try and determine if this is a system prooblem (upgrade went haywire
somehow) before proceeding down the debug route (SEGVs mean coding
problems __or__ hardware if the system is stressed)

You could try this by,

1.1 Download Nag
1.2 Configure and make (without any options to configure - you simply
want a binary)
1.3 Fire it up in the build directory, maybe with a sample config

If this SEGVs and you think it unlikely that config is at fault, then
you may have to look elsewhere.

2 Otherwise, if you want to continue with Netsaint debugging,

You should be getting symbols in the binary (line numbers and C
statements).

What happens after you type l 1,10 in gdb (before r) ?

Do you see 

tsitc# gdb netsaint
GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...Deprecated bfd_read
called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c
line 2627 in elfstab_build_psymtabs
Deprecated bfd_read called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c
line 933 in fill_symbuf

(gdb) l 1,10
1
/*****************************************************************************
2        *
3        * NETSAINT.C - Core Program Code For NetSaint
4        *
5        * Program: NetSaint
6        * Version: 0.0.7
7        * License: GPL
8        * Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Ethan Galstad ([email protected])
9        *
10       * First Written:   01-28-1999 (start of development)
(gdb) 

Do you have a programmer locally you can ask for assistance ?

Yours sincerely.

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Stanley Hopcroft
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Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
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from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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