ports/89074: Segmentation Violation during "make install" of XFree86-4 (fwd)

[Jean-Francois Gobin]

The following reply was made to PR ports/89074; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jean-Francois Gobin <gobin at gobinjf.be>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/89074: Segmentation Violation during "make install" of
 XFree86-4 (fwd)
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:21:11 +0100 (CET)

 And here you are ...
 
 ns# /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir  -x bdf .
 
 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
 ns#
 ns#
 ns# gdb /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
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 (gdb) run  -x bdf .
 Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir -x bdf .
 
 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 0x2822d1b9 in __vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.5
 (gdb) bt
 #0  0x2822d1b9 in __vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.5
 #1  0x2822bb07 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.5
 #2  0x282188ba in fprintf () from /lib/libc.so.5
 #3  0x080490d5 in WriteFontTable (dirName=0x720e5000 <Error reading address 
 0x720e5000: Bad address>, table=0xbfbfe7e0)
      at mkfontdir.c:204
 #4  0x08049f2d in DoDirectory (dirName=0xbfbfedb8 ".", encodings=0x720e5000, 
 count=1913540608) at mkfontdir.c:664
 #5  0x0804a437 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfbfecb4) at mkfontdir.c:793
 
 Hope it helps
 
 
 On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
 
 > That seems fine.
 > There are no debugging symbols in default install of XFree86-clients (where
 > mkfontdir comes from). To get them you need to add '-g' to CFLAGS and add a
 > line to scripts/configure of x11/XFree86-4-clients port:
 > 
 > echo "#define StripInstalledPrograms NO"        >> $LOCALDEF
 > 
 > (below the line
 > echo "#define UseInstalledLibraries YES"        >> $LOCALDEF
 > for example).
 > Then recompile this port and when you get to gdb, obtain a backtrace with
 > 'bt'.
 > Is the hardware in good shape (see
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#SIGNAL11)?
 >
 
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