On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote:
I can repeatedly reproduce the following on one machine:
* Start freshly build LyX 1.6.1svn
* 'C-o' (open-file)
* Enter directory 'private' (by double clicking on it)
* Enter subdirectory 'jobb' (by double clicking on it)
LyX now crashes with this message:
LyX: Done!
ASSERT failure in QList<T>::at: "index out of range", file
../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h, line 391
Aborted
I just build LyX 1.6.0 on that machine at it crashes in the same way.
This is definitely one of the stranger bugs I've ever encountered. It is
definitely related to a directory called 'Göran', which when doing ls
looks like 'G?ran'.
LyX crashes when opening to private/jobb/ if I have the following
directory struture
private/
jobb/
cv/
Göran/
However, it does not crash when I have either of these structures:
private/
Göran/
jobb/
cv/
or
private/
jobb/
cv/
Göran/
Nor does it crash if I rename 'private/' to 'p/' or 'privat/'.
It also does not crash if I rename 'jobb/' to 'j/' or 'jobba/'.
There was also a little while when LyX would crash immediately upon start
if I had 'Göran/' inside the directory 'private/jobb/'. If I then removed
'Göran/' from that directory, I could start LyX. Please note that LyX
starts browsing the home directory when doing C-o, not 'private/jobb/', so
it shouldn't matter what files there are in this directory when starting
LyX.
Does Qt cache directory structures globally or something?
Should I care about this bug? In my case, I can simply rename or
move 'Göran/', but maybe the bug can cause problems in other situations.
Regards,
Christian
PS. Can someone recommed a debugger for LyX on Ubuntu. In that case maybe
i could trace what's happening.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
