SegFault will importing some files from OpenOffice

[Syd Polk]

At 02:45 PM 12/26/00 -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>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.

Hmm. You should check your sn_prop.cfg files and make sure that your 
extensions are correct to your C parser.


>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
>
>---
>Kevin B. Hendricks, Associate Professor
>Operations and Information Technology
>Richard Ivey School of Business, UWO, London ON, CANADA
>(519) 661-3874

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