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sosonok

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Registered: 2008-11-18

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Sigil segfault

Since the last update (1.9.10-1), Sigil crashes at startup.

It says "segfault".

gdb sigil --> "/usr/bin/sigil": not in executable format: file format not recognized"

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Sigil segfault

I can confirm a segfault on startup.  Your gdb attempt fails as /bin/sigil is just a wrapper script, you'd need to run gdb on /usr/lib/sigil/sigil (with the proper environment settings from the /bin/sigil script).  But this does appear to be a bug that should go to the bug tracker if it's not already there yet - though collecting some more info here first might help in creating a detailed report.

Without debugging symbols I'm not able to glean much of anything about this - though I admit near-complete ignorance about debugging.  The backtrace is not very illuminating, though it is short and seems to indicate the fault occurs immediately upon calling the main function:

Reading symbols from /usr/lib/sigil/sigil...
(No debugging symbols found in /usr/lib/sigil/sigil)
[New LWP 349698]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/lib/sigil/sigil'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00005648a8492c04 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00005648a8492c04 in  ()
#1  0x00005648a848cc97 in  ()
#2  0x00007f0da77a13be in __libc_start_main () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x00005648a848f885 in _start ()
(gdb) 

Last edited by Trilby (2022-05-26 16:19:40)

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silent

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Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 57

Re: Sigil segfault

Please vote for the bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/74874