gschem crashes

[Dr M]

gschem crashes sporadically while editing schematics. The average time between crashes is less than half an hour.

The bug occurs in gschem 1.9.2 (g53ec833), built from git sources, and in gschem 1.8.2 (g875406c) from the Fedora repositories.

The desktop environment is Linux Fedora 26.

[Roland Lutz (rlutz)]

confirmed in 53ec833304eff182ea6dce241823099d1314bf51

[Dr M (drmcn)]

Great, it will be nice to see it fixed.  Looking forward to working with
you.

On 05/22/2018 05:18 PM, Roland Lutz wrote:
> ** Changed in: geda
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: geda
> Importance: High => Critical
>

[chrisisbd (chris-isbd)]

I can confirm that I see this issue too. I'm running gschem 1.8.2 on two Ubuntu systems, one is a desktop running xubuntu 16.04 and the other is a laptop running xubuntu 18.04. The crashes seem much more frequent on the laptop than on the desktop.

In many cases the crash occurs when one tries to exit from gschem, which is less of a nuisance anyway. Often there is a delay of several seconds after hitting 'Quit' and then it segfaults.

I've not noticed any particular when the crashes occur (except as noted above, when exiting) but I will try and see if there's any repeatable way of producing them.

[Antonio J. de Oliveira (ajoliveira-z)]

Confirmed using 1.8.2 and xubuntu 18.04 64-bit

[Roland Lutz (rlutz)]

Changed to "incomplete" because more information is required on how to reproduce the bug.

[Roland Lutz (rlutz)]

I believe this issue has been fixed in gEDA/gaf 1.10.0.

If you experience crashes in a more recent version of gschem, please open a new issue. It would be very helpful if you could give a series of actions that lead to gschem crashing and/or a stack trace or core dump. (If your distribution disables core dumps by default, you can enable them for the rest of the shell session with "ulimit -c unlimited").

fixed in fe23971c333c2c86abe40ddb1c15424565ef826a
released in gEDA/gaf 1.10.0