[users] irssi segfaults in CentOS 5

[Dries Verachtert]

On Friday April 20 2007, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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.

I tested this morning with 0.8.11rc2 and it has +/- the same problem. There's 
no link to that version on the site but you can download it at  
http://irssi.org/files/
Dries