On Monday 05 October 2009 06:24:10 pm Pavel Sanda wrote: > Stefano Franchi wrote: > > On Sunday 04 October 2009 05:57:16 am Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Stefano Franchi wrote: > > > > On Sunday 27 September 2009 04:49:38 am Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > > > Any suggestion on how to narrow down the problem further is welcome. > > > > I checked the bug tracker and could not find a related ticket, with > > > > the exception of the old (and fixed) #3970 which may or may not be > > > > related. > > > > > > can you try to apply the following patch and post the output from > > > console when lyx collapses? > > > > > > pavel > > > > Hi Pavel, > > > > the console output after the crash is not very informative: > > > > lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught > > Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting > > instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if > > necessary. Thanks ! Bye. > > Aborted > > > > > > I am appending below the backtraces from gdb, both with an unpatched and > > with a patched versions of lyx 1.6.4 stable: > > > > Backtrace on unpatched lyx 1.6.4 (stable) > > > > latex failed to compile 0lyxpreview.tex > > > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > > [Switching to Thread 0x7f06830d1750 (LWP 32678)] > > 0x000000000064d757 in lyx::RenderPreview::imageReady () > > (gdb) > > (gdb) bt > > #0 0x000000000064d757 in lyx::RenderPreview::imageReady () > > can you put breakpoint on the begining of imageReady function > and check on which line it really crashes? > > in gdb something like: > set break RenderPreview.cpp:line_number > run > cont > > //cont as many times until crash happens - then you which is the last > one, so again run, cont times-1 and use 'n' for step by step walk... > > pavel >
Hi Pavel, well I tried, but I am afraid the procedure you suggestes starts to be rather complicated. What exactly should I write in gdb? I never used it before except for getting a backtrace, so you'll have to be very explicit. Cheers, S. ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-4237
