Re: segmentation fault

Benoit Panizzon (panizzon@woody.ch)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:48:06 +0200 (MEST)

> WH>>In the last two days I tried to install ifmail again and again, but
> WH>>everey try of ifindex ends in an segmentation fault.
> WH>>After 12 years as fido node under 3 different operating systems (Mac,
> WH>>DOS, OS/2) and man different fido software packages, the configuration
> WH>>does not really seem to be a problem.
> WH>>"ifindex -x32" doesn´t show any error, it just stops with segmentation
> WH>>fault! Compillation of nodelist.078 and .092 resulted in the same error.
> WH>>Software: SuSE Linux 6.0, Kernel 2.036, libc.
>
> I assume that you are trying to compile a nodelist that you have patched
> yourself. Possibly the problem is in the nodelist you are starting from. I
> suggest that you get a complete nodelist from someone else and see if you
> can index that one.

Hmm, no, I've the same troubles and I've tryed with many different
nodelists. Also an own nodelist containing only about 10 entries....
If it has more than three entries, it segfaults....

Maybe it's a glibc related problem...
Or a gdbm related one...

I'm still trying a bit around...

-Benoit-