SegFault will importing some files from OpenOffice

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi Ben,

> Okay, this is not the same error as I reported before, but the following 
> (attached) file causes the cbrowser to hang in fread (backtrace inserted 
> below).

I found about 3 or 4 files that cause hangs.  Most of them are makefiles of 
some sort.  I would guess since I see no hangs under snavigator that these 
files are recongnized as non-source related files and that they are not added 
to the database of files to process.

By the way, once I remove all of the hanging files, cbrowser processes the 
complete list of files with no failures.  However, each and every time I 
start up snavigator and have it import the openoffice-613 source tree it will 
repeatedly segfault on the exact same files each time.

So there must be something different about how cbrowser is processing the 
files when handed to it by hyper /dbimp than when handed to it by cat?

I tried running hyper inside gdb and then setting gdb follow-fork-mode child 
but hyper repeatedly forks children to run cbrowser and I simply can't catch 
the error (I have to manually attach gdb to each forked process and I can't 
simply keep up).

Is there some other way to debug this?  Would an strace -f output help at all?

Thanks,

Kevin

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Kevin B. Hendricks, Associate Professor
Operations and Information Technology
Richard Ivey School of Business, UWO, London ON, CANADA
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