Re: Bug Number 8776 - Unusable on FreeBSD/amd64

Mark Kane wrote:
> J.M. Maurer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 02:07 -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
>>> Hi. I don't mean to bug you guys, but I'm wondering if anyone was
>>> planning on looking into or fixing bug 8776. In a short summary,
>>> AbiWord is completely unusable on FreeBSD/amd64. It crashes on both
>>> FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x (amd64) with the latest version of everything
>>> (AbiWord, GTK, OS, etc).
>>>
>>> I _thought_ it somehow got fixed when I did a portupgrade a week or
>>> two ago because it worked one time, but then tonight I worked over
>>> an hour on writing a document and went to "Save As"....and it crashed.
>>>
>>> Again, not trying to complain about it or bother you guys. Just
>>> wondering if anyone has any ideas on this since it's been on the bug
>>> tracker for over a year now. Also, I'm more than willing to help
>>> test any proposed fixes.
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8776
>>
>> Still on my radar, but I don't have an _x64 machine atm, so I can't test
>> it. If someone could make a valgrind trace with a full debug build, that
>> would be great.
>>
>> Marc
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Unfortunately Valgrind is marked as only working on FreeBSD/i386, so I
> was unable to do that since I am running amd64. I did try rebuilding
> with debug and running it from the terminal. Not sure if it will help,
> but attached are some outputs and what triggered them.
>
> -Mark
>
You may want to take a peek and see if the Ubuntu bug at
https://launchpad.net/bugs/39367 is similar to your experience - it may
be a GNOME platform on AMD 64 bug, rather than an AbiWord bug or
Ubuntu-only bug.

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
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