Subject: Re: Hideable rulers
From: Stephen Hack (shack@uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 15:56:01 CST
Could you try deleting all the *Ruler*, *Frame*, *Factory*, in the obj directory
and try again?
or a clean rebuild to be safe.
-shack
btw, make sure you check out the latest versions
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:29:30AM -0700, Logan Hall wrote:
> Stephen Hack wrote:
>
> > Logan,
> >
> > Thanks for reminding me... arghh. I now remember this problem from when I
> > started two weeks ago.!! I'll look into it.
> >
> > ....
> >
> > I just tried to generate a segfault, but have been unable to. I've started
> > both w/ the ruler prefs on and off, and tried scrolling between multiple
> > toggles of the ruler via the menu.
> >
> > ....
> >
> > I finally got it to segfault after a few minutes of going up and down, toggle,
> > repeat. Can you come up w/ a sure time crash situation? I've not been able
> > to come up with one. :<
>
> Yes.. Here is what i do....
> Open abi and maximize the window (although it segfaults even if you havent
> maximized it), turn off rulers from the menu, they disapear nicely and then I
> click where they were just a second ago (on the grey background that they used to
> over lay). Then i start to scroll and it segfaults. a intereesting thing is that
> it will do it even if you hit return on the page. You can type some but when it
> goes to the next line or you hit return it segfaults. here is the gdb backtrace.
>
> GNU gdb 4.17.0.11 with Linux support
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> This GDB was configured as "ppc-unknown-linux".
> (gdb) file AbiWord_d
> Reading symbols from AbiWord_d...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord_d
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x62617364 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x62617364 in ?? ()
> (gdb)
>
> relatively short i think. kinda strange backtrace too. Hope this helps you.
>
>
> >
> >
> > -shack
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Logan Hall wrote:
> > > Good job on the rulers so far. They dont segfault as soon as you click
> > > on them now. but abi does seg fault when you click on them and then try
> > > to scroll. I suppose you are still working on this but i just wanted to
> > > let you know i case you hadn't noticed it.
> > >
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> > > Logan Hall
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