Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:29:54 +0200

On Thursday, July 12, 2012, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> On Thursday, July 12, 2012, Zhang Yuliang wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I am trying to install EDM-1-12-78 on a Redhat 4.8 32 bit machine and
> > am able to build it successfully. However, when I try to create a new
> > edl file or open an existing edl file , the EDM crashes with the error
> > of "Segmentation fault".
> > 
> > How to solve this issue?
> 
> The very first thing is to inlcude the author (John William Sinclair
> <[email protected]>), as I believe he does not listen to tech-talk for
> bug reports.
> 
> Then, make sure a core file gets generated. If not, enable this by
> issuing the command
> 
> > ulimit -c unlimited
> 
> on the shell before starting edm. Now, load edm (the executable) into a
> debugger (I use ddd as frontend to gdb), let it crash, load the core
> file, ask ddd to let you see the stack backtrace. Post this backtrace.

Sorry, this is confusing, what I meant to say:

1) start edm
2) let it crash
3) load edm (executable) into ddd
4) load core file
...

Cheers
Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System