slrn from ports segfaults when running

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Fri Sep 15 13:08:03 UTC 2017


On 15.09.2017 20:00, tech-lists wrote:
> Hello ports@
> 
> slrn as compiled from ports will segfault after a short time when
> reading a newsgroup. The fix is to deinstall the port, grab the source
> via git from git://git.jedsoft.org/git/slrn.git and compile it
> yourself and install.
> 
> If someone can tell me how to diagnose a segfault, I'm happy to help
> provide more diagnostics.

First, try to rebuild port using "make WITH_DEBUG=yes" and run non-stripped binary
from stage/ subdirectory of port building ares. Then get corefile and
use gdb to get backtrace.





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