sol crashes after 2.14 -> 2.16 upgrade (done the portupgrade -a)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Ted Faber wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:51:35PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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>> Ted Faber wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I've followed the directions in UPDATING to move from 2.14  -> 2.16 and
>>> something seems to be messed up.  There are a couple apps not working,
>>> but the easiest to isolate was /usr/local/bin/sol (freecell) crashing
>>> as soon as you click on a card.
>> I cannot reproduce on my -CURRENT system.  Since the backtrace does not
>> contain any debugging symbols, it's hard to see exactly why freecell is
>> crashing.  However, you might try the following as root:
>>
>> ln -sf aj /etc/malloc.conf
>>
>> And see if that helps.
> 
> That fixes sol all right.  Something's not being initialized.  Thanks
> for the workaround.  Is this worth a bugreport to gnome itself?  It
> sounds like an initialization error in real code.

Yes.  I believe I have found the problem.  If so, I will file the bug
with the patch.

> 
> Can you try the reverse on your -CURRENT ln -s AJ /etc/malloc.conf and
> see if it fails for you? (or have you already?)

Yes, the default malloc options trigger the crash.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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