Re: snnewgroup: Segmentation fault on ppc systems

Chris Niekel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:36:44PM +0100, Sebastian D.B. Krause wrote:
>> I just tried to install sn on my iBook (G3) running Debian (I wanted
>> to use the binary installed by "apt-get install sn"), but snnewgroup
>> segfaults when I try to create a group, so I recompiled sn with
>> debugging symbols and started it through gdb:
>
> And you didn't use the debian-bugtracking system!

I thought of using it. But as the bug is in upstream, I thought to
better ask here first...

>> If you need more information, tell me and describe me how to get
>> it. :) I don't get this error on my x86 box.
>
> Could you print a backtrace ('bt') at that point? That would show where
> the 'vachar' was called. 

,----
| (gdb) set args gmane.network.sn news.gmane.org 119
| (gdb) run
| Starting program: /tmp/sn-0.3.6/snnewgroup gmane.network.sn news.gmane.org 119
| 
| Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
| 0x100015e8 in vachar (c=100, app=0x7ffffbf8, tmp=0x7ffffbc8 "\017ü\202X\020\0015 \177ÿü\020\017öžà\017è~à", len=0x7ffffbfc)
|     at format.c:59
| 59	      case 'd': i = va_arg(*app, int); p = istr(i, 10, tmp); break;
| (gdb) bt
| #0  0x100015e8 in vachar (c=100, app=0x7ffffbf8, tmp=0x7ffffbc8 "\017ü\202X\020\0015 \177ÿü\020\017öžà\017è~à", len=0x7ffffbfc)
|     at format.c:59
| #1  0x100017a0 in formatv (buf=0x1001357c "", size=2147482616, fmt=0x100024b5 "d", ap=0xfe87ee0) at format.c:91
| #2  0x10001894 in formats (buf=0x0, size=2147482616, fmt=0x7ffffbc8 "\017ü\202X\020\0015 \177ÿü\020\017öžà\017è~à")
|     at format.c:115
| #3  0x10000f84 in main (argc=4, argv=0x7ffffd94) at snnewgroup.c:155
| #4  0x0fe9d120 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
| (gdb) 
`----

HTH,
Sebastian