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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:47:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Cc:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>, "Mezz bsdforums.org" <reigncracks@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vte 2.2.1 halt and lagging the CPU.. (freeze)
Message-ID:  <20030325144553.N41700@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Franz Klammer wrote:

> Am Di, 2003-03-25 um 20.08 schrieb Glenn Johnson:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:06, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Am Di, 2003-03-25 um 02.11 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:38, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > JUST FOR INFO:
> > > > > > > > also abiword2-1.1.4 dies with a segfault at startup if LANG is set.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Set to what?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > to my locale:
> > > > > > de_[DE|AT].ISO[_]8859-1[5] -> segfault  (error-dialog in german)
> > > > >
> > > > > Okay, this doesn't happen on -STABLE.  I can see AbiWord just fine
> > > > > in German.  I'm pretty sure you're all running 5.x of some kind.
> > > > > My -CURRENT machine is getting some much-needed love since I left
> > > > > last week.  I should be able to test AbiWord on it tomorrow.
> > > > > In the meantime, if you could recompile AbiWord with debugging
> > > > > symbols, and capture the crash, that would help to get the ball
> > > > > rolling.  Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > tadaa!
> > >
> > > I found a workaround.  If you edit /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c,
> > > and set junk and abort to 0, then rebuild libc, this problem will
> > > go away.  This means that there is some memory issues in AniWord
> > > (and probably other apps as well).  -STABLE and 5.0-RELEASE won't be
> > > affected as they already have these changes.  I'm unable to get a
> > > backtrace for my AbiWord, but I'll try and debug yours, Franz.
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
> > Why not just set the malloc options to 'aj', as per the malloc man page?
>
> yes! that helps!
> the joke is, that i had set this but i removed id because i didn't
> really know what i set.
>
> i tested ed_DE and nl_NL and abiword did start without problems.
> exept el_GR make still problems but if i look at the backtrace
> i think this is a completely other problem.

Yes, Greek still has a problem.  The backtrace is more or less useless,
too :-(.  I do think I'm close to finding why the SIGFAULT happens.

Joe

>
> i put back my old settings: malloc.conf -> ajH>
>
> franz.
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