[Therion] Bus error

John Pybus john at pybus.org
Sat Feb 14 01:46:09 CET 2009


Wookey wrote:
> +++ Hilary Greaves [2009-02-13 23:17 +0000]:
>> Hi
>>
>> We're trying to draw an extended elevation, and keep getting 'bus errors' on trying to compile the thconfig.  
>> One set of files that triggers an error is attached (this one just tries to draw a single scrap).
>>
>> Any ideas - is this fixable?
> 
> 'Bus error' actually means something like you have run out of memory,
> or the software has segfaulted - i.e there has been a serious disaster
> at a low level. There may well be a corresponding software bug, but
> trying another computer would be informative if you have one to hand. 

Hils is struggling with the same dataset I am.  She's running OS/X and 
gets a Bus Error.  On Ubuntu (using the distro provided therion 0.5.1) I 
also get Segmentation faults with exactly the same test cases.  I'd 
guess it's dereferencing a null pointer somewhere.

Cheers,
John



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