mc crashes while browsing deb package.

[d.sastr...@gmail.com]

Hello,

This is to report that mc crashes when browsing deb packages.

This box is a:

Linux ghost 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Tue Mar 9 18:01:52 UTC 2010
i686 GNU/Linux

I've build a copy of mc-4.7.1 with this specs:

$ ./src/mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.1
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, mcfs, undelfs
With builtin Editor
Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Data types: char 8 int 32 long 32 void * 32 off_t 64 ecs_char 32

using this conf line:

$ export CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"; export CFLAGS="-g -march=prescott
-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"; export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}";
./configure --enable-extcharset --enable-vfs-cpio --enable-vfs-tar
--enable-vfs-ftp --enable-vfs-fish --enable-vfs-extfs --enable-vfs-sfs
--enable-vfs-undelfs --enable-vfs-mcfs --enable-netcode
--enable-mcserver --enable-background --enable-charset --enable-werror
--with-gnu-ld --with-x --with-gpm-mouse --with-search-engine=pcre
--with-subshell --with-ssl --enable-debug

So I assume debugging symbols to be present in the binary.
I've attached an output log from a gdb session. Hopefully it's useful.
However, I've noticed many "No symbol table info available."
statements in the debugging log. Are any specifical steps needed to
compile mc with debug enabled (other than --enable-debug and -g flag)?

Please CC me in your answers, I'm not subscribed to the list.

Best regards.

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[andrew_b]

On 24 апр, 16:58, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote:
> So I assume debugging symbols to be present in the binary.
> I've attached an output log from a gdb session. Hopefully it's useful.

Unfortunately, there is no debug info in your gdb output.

> However, I've noticed many "No symbol table info available."
> statements in the debugging log. Are any specifical steps needed to
> compile mc with debug enabled (other than --enable-debug and -g flag)?

I believe http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/doc/tracingCrash will
help you.

Also there is a bug report in MC Track: http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2065.

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Regards,
Andrew

[David Sastre]

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback. I'll build a debug-enabled copy of mc ASAP.
Hopefully I'll be able to confirm the bug and produce useful backtraces.
Next time I'll use the bug tracking system on Trac.

Regards.