Memory fault(coredump) after starting Gimp on UX 11.11i (PA-RISC)

[H. van Niekerk]

Hi,

After installing all dependencies and setting SHLIB_PATH right, I get this coredump. I can't find anything related to gimp in other threads. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

strings core

gdb core

It could be bad code on behalf of gimp

SEP

[H. van Niekerk]

How can I find out what kind of core it is? Copy it to some place here?

[Alex Glennie]

Qu ..... where did you get the GIMP binary from out of interest ?

if part of gnome desktop as in http://docs.hp.com/en/GNOME/support.html it maybe worth installing patches though I see no mention of known errors wrt gimp.

I suggest you post the file core outputs and go from there.

[H. van Niekerk]

This is where I got Gimp from:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gtk/Applications/gimp-2.6.6/

The core is rw- but this is all I can get out of it:

# cat core | pg
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The rest is really unreadable.

[Alex Glennie]

Run-time dependencies: Mesa SDL aalib atk audiofile babl bzip2 cairo curl db editline esound expat flex fontconfig freetype gdbm gegl gettext glib2 gtk+2 gutenprint heimdal jasper jpeg lcms libXft libXpm libXrender libart_lgpl libiconv libidn libmng libpng libwmf m4 ncurses openldap openssl pango pcre perl pixman readline termcap tiff zlib

that's a lot ... are you 100 % certain all installed OK ? swlist confirms this ?

how about some meat on the bones ... O/S here is ?

get your admin to run the file core command... the output would help enormously imho.

work-around install gnome gimp worked at version 1.4 ;-)

[Dennis Handly]

>I get this coredump

Any error messages before it aborted? Do you have a stack trace:
$ gdb gimp core
(gdb) bt
(gdb) q

> How can I find out what kind of core it is? Copy it to some place here?

That would be next to useless. You can use "file core" and if you want to transfer the corefile, you must use gdb's packcore.

>The core is ... but this is all I can get out of it:

That's because using strings(1) on a corefile will just confuse you.

>Alex: get your admin to run the file core command... the output would help enormously

Yes, this will help (and a stack trace) but you can do it yourself.

[H. van Niekerk]

>$ gdb gimp core

Seems I don't have gdb installed. It's also not on the packages list where I got the rest of the packages or where I got tusc from. So a link would be appreciated.

>>..the file core command... the output would help enormously

$ file core
core: core file from 'gimp-2.6' - received SIGSEGV

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

This looks more and more like an application fault in gimp itself.

If you could tell me where you got it, I will install it and test it on my HP-UX systems this Sunday.

Sunday is build a serviceguard cluster day in SEP's insane asylum.

SEP

[H. van Niekerk]

>If you could tell me where you got it, I will install it and test it on my HP-UX systems this Sunday.

This is the place: http://hpux.its.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/Gtk/Applications/gimp-2.6.6/

Thank you.

[Dennis Handly]

>Seems I don't have gdb installed. So a link would be appreciated.

You get the latest wdb/gdb from HP:
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb

[H. van Niekerk]

>You get the latest wdb/gdb from HP:
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb

Though I've signed in, it seems I can't get it:

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Any suggestions, apart from contacting them?

[Dennis Handly]

>Though I've signed in, it seems I can't get it: » Join DSPP

Beside HP Passport, you have to join DSPP.

[H. van Niekerk]

>Beside HP Passport, you have to join DSPP.

Thank you. Did it and installed gdb. Unfortunately it says Gimp has no debugging info.

[Dennis Handly]

>it says gimp has no debugging info.

Hopefully you can still get a stack trace.

[H. van Niekerk]

>Hopefully you can still get a stack trace.

How do I get a stack trace? Only found some script on DSPP, but no idea if that's what you mean.

[Dennis Handly]

>How do I get a stack trace?

See my reply above on Jun 30.

[ranganath ramachandra]

please do not use or advise "strings core", at least not as a first step in debugging. the first step is to obtain a stack trace as dennis has shown.

[H. van Niekerk]

>See my reply above on Jun 30.

Ok. Here's the result in attachment.

[Dennis Handly]

>Here's the result in attachment.

Typically aborts in malloc/free are due to heap corruption. There is a bug in gimp.
I suppose if you have the source and want to fix it, you could use gdb's heap corruption commands to track down where the problem is.

[H. van Niekerk]

>I suppose if you have the source and want to fix it, you could use gdb's heap corruption commands to track down where the problem is.

I don't have the source or the expert programming knowledge to do that. So I'm stuck with this until someone who can fix it is willing to do so. But as said earlier on, I have Gimp running on Mac and Linux, so it's ok.

[Alex Glennie]

been away for 2 weeks .... as this is 11.11 you could use an older packaged version of gimp which comes as part of the gnome desktop enviroment .... draw back is it's bound to be old.

see http://docs.hp.com/en/GNOME/downloads.html