Re: MEDM issues

[D Peter Siddons <siddons@bnl.gov>]

Sounds familiar. I'll try that. I have had that issue with other 
programs. I think Ubuntu sets it pretty small by default.
Pete.


On 03/16/2015 02:58 PM, Jennings, Guy wrote:
> That sounds very much like a regular stack overflow… I’m not sure how you change stack size -
> is it ulimit -s ?
>
> > On Mar 16, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > On 03/15/2015 10:42 AM, D Peter Siddons wrote:
> > > I've attached a medm screen. I'm having problems with the Bar Monitor
> > > widget.
> > >
> > > In edit mode:
> > >
> > > Setting direction to "up" gives:
> > > *** stack smashing detected ***: medm terminated
> > >
> > > Setting display precision to User Specified gives:
> > > SIGSEGV
> > >
> > > [1]+  Aborted                 (core dumped) medm scintscal.adl
> > >
> > > This is with medm-3.1.9 and epics base-3.14.12.4 on Ubuntu 14.10.
> > I built medm-3.1.9 on Ubuntu 14.04-LTS and just managed to get a SIGSEGV
> > from it when playing around with User Specified, but couldn't replicate
> > it yet when running under gdb.
> >
> > - Andrew
> > --
> > Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
> > No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has
> > always got there first, and is waiting for it.
> >     -- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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