The current stable release did not have this crash. I can test other builds
if you point me at them. Is there a way to get ngspice to produce debug
output?

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 14:20 Adam Wolf <email address hidden> wrote:

> Do these issues happen with 5.2 or other nightlies from before the
> ngspice-30 change?
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 1:25 PM Nick Østergaard <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > It is unclear to me if this is an issue with kicad, ngspice or the
> > packaging. How can we narrow this down?
> >
> > ** Changed in: kicad
> >        Status: New => Confirmed
> >
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> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835296
> >
> > Title:
> >   simulating laser_driver on macos nightly causes segfault
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> Title:
>   simulating laser_driver on macos nightly causes segfault
>
> Status in KiCad:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Running the 20190703 nightly MacOS build (which I believe has the new
>   ngspice-30 library, although I don't know how to check), simulating
>   the laser_driver or sallen_key demo project causes a hard crash of the
>   entire KiCad application. In particular, pressing "Run/Stop
>   Simulation" causes a segmentation fault in libngspice.0.dylib. Stack
>   trace and version information below.
>
>   The other two demo simulation projects (rectifier, pspice) do not
>   crash, and seem to give sensible simulation results.
>
>   The most obvious difference between the crashing (laser_driver,
>   sallen_key) and working (rectifier, pspice) projects is that the
>   crashing projects include external spice model libraries (e.g.
>   ad8009.lib in laser_driver) and the working projects use only internal
>   models. My own projects seem to crash if they include external models,
>   but I haven't systematically tested.
>
>   Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.
>
>   Stack trace:
>
>   Crashed Thread:        13
>
>   Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
>   Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000001d0
>   Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
>
>   ...
>
>   Thread 13 Crashed:
>   0   libngspice.0.dylib                0x000000011a962c5d MIFsetup + 109
>   1   libngspice.0.dylib                0x000000012623f3d6 CKTsetup + 214
>   2   libngspice.0.dylib                0x00000001262391b1 CKTdoJob + 961
>   3   libngspice.0.dylib                0x0000000125e48050 if_run + 1296
>   4   libngspice.0.dylib                0x0000000125e4513e dosim + 894
>   5   libngspice.0.dylib                0x0000000125e148cb docommand + 299
>   6   libngspice.0.dylib                0x0000000125e13ece doblock + 126
>   7   libngspice.0.dylib                0x0000000125e13ca3 cp_evloop + 2547
>   8   libngspice.0.dylib                0x0000000125e0a531 _thread_run + 65
>   9   libsystem_pthread.dylib           0x00007fff71c342eb _pthread_body +
> 126
>   10  libsystem_pthread.dylib           0x00007fff71c37249 _pthread_start
> + 66
>   11  libsystem_pthread.dylib           0x00007fff71c3340d thread_start +
> 13
>
>   Version information:
>
>   Application: Eeschema
>   Version: (5.1.0-1195-g72308fe16), debug build
>   Libraries:
>       wxWidgets 3.0.4
>       libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.6.5 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.1
>   Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 18.6.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
>   Build Info:
>       wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
>       Boost: 1.69.0
>       OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
>       Curl: 7.54.0
>       Compiler: Clang 9.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
>
>   Build settings:
>       KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>       KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>       KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
>       KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>       KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
>       KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>       BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>       KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>       KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
>       KICAD_SPICE=ON
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