[WAIT NOT SOLVED] Leafpad is segfaulting, but only when run as root.

SomeGuyDude · 2009-05-20 04:14:54

Is there ANY reason this would happen? Things have been really out of control lately it seems and I've got no idea what's up.

[crew@myhost ~]$ leafpad
Segmentation fault
[crew@myhost ~]$

Last edited by SomeGuyDude (2009-05-21 03:28:56)

pharcyde · 2009-05-20 04:30:30

This happened to me awhile ago. I don't know how I fixed it but it works now.

skottish · 2009-05-20 04:31:29

Try running it under GDB and see where it's segfaulting.

SomeGuyDude · 2009-05-20 04:35:44

I have no clue how to use GDB and its documentation is impenetrable at 12:30am. What the hell do I type into this thing?

Statix · 2009-05-20 05:14:16

Not sure if it'll give you the details you need, but you can run:

gdb leafpad

Then in gdb's interactive command line:

run

skottish · 2009-05-20 05:16:56

gdb leafpad

When it gets to the prompt, type 'run'. You'll probably get a bunch of stuff about 'no debugging symbols found'. Just hit return. Keep doing that until leafpad starts. After it segfaults, type 'where'. That'll give you a stack trace.

This is a good reference to have around:

http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces

SomeGuyDude · 2009-05-20 13:27:45

Hokay, that got me this:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fad372ef112 in ____strtoll_l_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x00007fad372ef112 in ____strtoll_l_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x000000000040825e in ?? ()
#2  0x00000000004086e3 in ?? ()
#3  0x00007fad372d79ed in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x0000000000408109 in ?? ()
#5  0x00007fff41e5e658 in ?? ()
#6  0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#7  0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#8  0x00007fff41e5ead9 in ?? ()
#9  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Anything I can actually DO with this?

jorpheus · 2009-05-20 20:33:59

pharcyde wrote:

This happened to me awhile ago. I don't know how I fixed it but it works now.

Same here. It died when I installed SciTE, but didn't come to life when I tried removing it. Reinstallation didn't work either. If I remember correctly, there was a problem with one of the (Murrina) themes, but Leafpad didn't report it, some other program did (console output). Oddly enough, everything else worked perfectly, so I didn't think it was a big deal. But it's possible it was really magic.

Last edited by jorpheus (2009-05-20 20:34:41)

SomeGuyDude · 2009-05-21 03:17:29

...I deleted the ~/.config/leafpad

It works again as USER, but not as ROOT.

Last edited by SomeGuyDude (2009-05-21 03:28:32)

Allan · 2009-05-21 04:00:35

There is probably a config needing delete in your root's home directory

Arch Linux

#1 2009-05-20 04:14:54

[WAIT NOT SOLVED] Leafpad is segfaulting, but only when run as root.

#2 2009-05-20 04:30:30

Re: [WAIT NOT SOLVED] Leafpad is segfaulting, but only when run as root.

#3 2009-05-20 04:31:29

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#4 2009-05-20 04:35:44

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#5 2009-05-20 05:14:16

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