> Use "bt full". > > What’s "p the_history" and "p the_history[0]"?
Looks legit: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff79b6a0b in previous_history () at /build/readline6-RKA9OI/readline6-6.3/history.c:185 185 /build/readline6-RKA9OI/readline6-6.3/history.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007ffff79b6a0b in previous_history () at /build/readline6-RKA9OI/readline6-6.3/history.c:185 No locals. #1 0x00007ffff79b65e5 in rl_get_previous_history (count=<optimized out>, key=<optimized out>) at /build/readline6-RKA9OI/readline6-6.3/misc.c:609 old_temp = 0x0 temp = 0x0 key = <optimized out> count = 1 #2 0x00007ffff799b990 in _rl_dispatch_subseq (key=65, map=<optimized out>, got_subseq=0) at /build/readline6-RKA9OI/readline6-6.3/readline.c:832 r = 0 newkey = <optimized out> func = <optimized out> cxt = <optimized out> #3 0x00007ffff799c202 in _rl_dispatch_callback (cxt=0x61cb10) at /build/readline6-RKA9OI/readline6-6.3/readline.c:736 nkey = <optimized out> r = <optimized out> #4 0x00007ffff79b27ff in rl_callback_read_char () at /build/readline6-RKA9OI/readline6-6.3/callback.c:188 line = <optimized out> eof = <optimized out> jcode = <optimized out> olevel = {{__jmpbuf = {6319136, 7997659007791416985, -1, 0, 4212971, 6319559, 7997659007814485657, 7997676843090331289}, __mask_was_saved = 0, __saved_mask = {__val = {0 <repeats 16 times>}}}} #5 0x0000000000403885 in input_read () at client/birdc.c:219 No locals. #6 0x00000000004020d3 in select_loop () at client/client.c:375 select_fds = {__fds_bits = {1, 0 <repeats 15 times>}} rv = <optimized out> #7 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at client/client.c:447 No locals. (gdb) p the_history $1 = (HIST_ENTRY **) 0x609470 (gdb) p the_history[0] $2 = (HIST_ENTRY *) 0x609630 (gdb) p *(the_history[0]) $3 = {line = 0x609650 „show protocols „, timestamp = 0x609610 "", data = 0x0} Double-plus-weird! I keep digging … Clemens