On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Carol Spears <carol.spears@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 5:30 PM, richard brown <richardbenedict@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 06/08/17 21:20, Carol Spears wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 1:49 PM, richard brown <richardbenedict@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> No-one? >>> >> >> Asking me? >> >> The babl fast path is probably not the problem, at least it is not a >> problem here. Actually, I kind of like it because I can watch it to know >> where some of the other plug-ins are at in their progress. >> >> The last time I had a segfault like that, I was instructed to install gdb >> (https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/) because the regular stack trace is >> not so helpful. >> >> That has been a few years now, so maybe my advice is outdated. >> >> >> Thanks. I tried it, and it doesn't like the "gimp-2.9" script that >> launches the program. >> >> "/home/richard/Software/gimp-git/gimp/app/gimp-2.9": not in executable >> format: File format not recognised >> >> gdb is going to want to be started from the command line. > > It is weird to me that you are running this from the source file. You > don't install into /usr/local or /opt or some such? If you have been > building and using gimp from there for a long while, that would not be the > problem but I would have thought that this could cause problems, like gimp > finding the plug-ins it brings, etc. > > Here is a how-to that doesn't mention anything I remember when I used gdb: > http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~sugih/pointers/summary.html > > I remember using "bt" something like 'gdb bt /path/to/binary/gimp-2.n' > > If you could get a good output from that, perhaps you could file a bug > report and maybe the real hackers are there.... > After some thought, (and unfortunately no reading) I suspect that the "bt" was typed during the stack trace. Perhaps there is some reliable advice in the mail list archives.... Carol _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
