gEDA-user: gEDA - gschem 20060123 Failure

[John Doty]

On Jun 12, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote:

>>> Sounds like the infamous slice bug. Try:
>>> export G_SLICE=always-malloc
>>
>> Thanks, that seemed to fix the problem.
>>
>
> 	Okay, it is now 100% clear that there is a problem in
> libgeda and/or gschem.  It's most likely due to memory being allocated
> with malloc and being freed using g_free or the reverse.  Oops.
> I need to reproduce this problem on my box (or if anybody wants to
> help please feel free) and then go through and find the offending
> pair.

Closing a page with "pc" when I have a bunch of pages open seems to  
reliably trigger the problem if G_SLICE isn't set. I just now went  
into a directory with a bunch of schematics, typed "gschem *.sch",  
and then typed "pc" at gschem, and sure enough, it segfaulted.

geda 20060123
glib 2.10.3
gentoo Linux on an AMD Athlon 64

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
jpd at wispertel.net