[users] irssi segfaults in CentOS 5

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Tomá Laovika wrote:

> I have recently installed new machine with CentOS 5 and XEN virtuals. I have 
> tried to install irssi both into dom0 and domU and in both cases it ends 
> with "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" message. 
> 
> Where can I find additional hints? Examining that core file with strings isn't 
> much helpful since i don't know what should I look for... My irssi version 
> was irssi-0.8.10-1.2.el5.rf in both cases.
> 
> Thank you for help

I did an strace which didn't help much. Then I did an ltrace, which showed 
that it failed on a GC_free(). I verified with other packages and the 
common fix is to disabled building with GC. (garbage collection)

I also updated to 0.8.10a (which should not make a difference) and applied 
a DCC unregister patch. And I tested the new 0.8.10a-1.el5 without libgc 
RPM package and it doesn't segfault anymore.

The new package will be available later today.

I am anticipating the 0.8.11 release as I prefer not to ship RC releases.
If there is a demand for it, I'm interested to look at a test 0.8.11rc 
release.

Thanks for reporting !
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