debugging gnucash segmentation fault

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 02:40, Craig Riter wrote:
> Sorry, I should have said that this happens at start up of the application.
> I don't get anything, not even the little splash screen about it loading.

I definitely get the application to start.

> 
> To double check everything I started a recursive rebuild of everything with
> this command...
> 
> $portupgrade -Rf gnucash
> 
> If that doesn't fix it, is there an easy way to have it reinstall everything
> with symbols?   Would this command work?
> 
> $portupgrade -m "STRIP= CFLAGS=\"-O -pipe -g\" -iRf gnucash
> 
> I figure the -i will ask which ports should be re-installed with symbols or
> maybe I shouldn't even bother and just install everything with symbols.

In general, you need to rebuild gnucash, guile, and libltdl with
symbols.  That should help narrow down the problem.

Joe

> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> Craig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke [mailto:marcus at marcuscom.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 11:03 PM
> To: Craig Riter
> Cc: freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: debugging gnucash segmentation fault
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 01:39, Craig Riter wrote:
> > I have been trying to debug a problem with gnucash on my FreeBSD box.  I
> am
> > running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE and had rebuilt my system on June 30.  I have
> > attached a list of my current ports.  Everything that gnucash depends
> meets
> > the dependencies or has been upgrade past the dependent version.
> >
> > After gnucash seg faults in guile I started up the gdb and got the stack
> > trace (also attached).
> >
> > I did have everything working before with version 1.8.2 or was it .1.  I
> > don't remember exactly just that it used to work.  I am not sure where to
> go
> > next with this.  Does anyone have in ideas of how to figure out exactly
> what
> > is causing my problem?
> 
> You need to rebuild gnucash, and all of its dependencies with debugging
> symbols, then redo the stack trace.  Only then will it be useful.  It
> would also be helpful to know exactly the steps you did to reproduce the
> crash.
> 
> Joe
> 
> [message trimmed]
> 
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