Re: EDM Segmentation fault

[Benjamin Franksen <benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de>]

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
> <sinclairjw@ornl.gov>), 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

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