Anyone having issues with naim?

kclive18 · 2008-09-25 15:05:38

I have been using pidgin in place of the awesome ncurses-based naim for the past month because of this nagging error with naim:

naim: hwprintf.c:42: h_zero: Assertion `strlen(h->addch.buf) == h->addch.len' failed.
     Aborted

Is anyone else getting this? If so, has anyone resolved this issue? Thanks.

slypheed · 2008-10-07 14:35:54

same here -- google turns up this google code bug report, but no replies yet:

http://code.google.com/p/naim/issues/detail?id=18

That person is using Arch as well, so may be an arch-specific issue...

gdb returns:
#3 0xb7e1f65e in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6

thoughts?

slypheed · 2008-10-07 14:56:58

so not exactly the best solution, but this appears to work fine as a temporary fix:

1. Downloaded the source and commented out the assertion line (src/hwprintf.c:42)
2. configure;make;make install

I'll post back if it ends up biting me...

(also this seems like an upstream bug, so not going to post in the Arch tracker for now, but a bit odd that the only bug posts I've seen for it are from Arch users...)

Last edited by slypheed (2008-10-07 14:57:43)

slypheed · 2008-10-07 15:28:57

So I'm probably going about this completely wrong (advice more than welcome)...but I wanted to play around with building packages so this seemed like a good excuse.

So I've built a naim package with the assertion commented out which appears to work fine -- named 'naim_noassert' to avoid naming conflicts with the official package -- and it will install to /usr/local.

1. wget http://slypheed.com/files/naim_noassert/PKGBUILD
2. makepkg -c
3. pacman -U naim_noassert-0.11.8.3.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

as mentioned, comments on what I should have done instead most welcome :/

Last edited by slypheed (2008-10-07 15:31:18)

kclive18 · 2008-10-07 18:08:22

Thank you for replying to this thread, slypheed. I will definitely try this out and I may even notify the maintainer of the naim package about this possible fix.

slypheed · 2008-10-10 04:03:45

glad to help :) -- please post back if you hear anything more on this issue.

cheers

Last edited by slypheed (2008-10-10 04:04:01)

muiro · 2008-10-24 05:02:46

That was my bug report on the naim developer's site.

No response at all. Attempted to contact developer via email and still no response.

EDIT: That noassert package really helped. I've been missing naim for so long. finch just wasn't cutting it at all...

Last edited by muiro (2008-10-24 05:17:50)

muiro · 2009-01-21 21:34:24

UPDATE:

I've spoken to the naim author. Seems that that naim is actually being linked to the wrong ncurses library in Arch. It was actually kind of a while ago that I spoke with him, so I don't remember specifics.

This is a strictly Arch-related issue. We just need to figure out why it's linking incorrectly.

I can probably scare up the log of the aim conversation if someone actually has time to look into this.

Last edited by muiro (2009-01-21 21:34:53)

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#1 2008-09-25 15:05:38

Anyone having issues with naim?

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