[mythtv] mythgame segmentation fault when mythgame binary is defined

[tarek Lubani]

No sir.. OK, let's try to get some details going here and look for 
similarities..

I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on an AMD/based system..
xmame version 0.61

what else are your specs?

tarek : )

>I'm having this exact same problem. Have you (or anyone else) figured
>out a fix for it?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:30, Tarek Loubani wrote:
> > Hey guys!
> >
> > I was wondering if anybody has experienced this..
> >
> > the problem: mythgame seg. faults when executed from command line (and 
> presumably when executed from mythfrontend though there is nothing said 
> in that case) when *and only when* the myth game binary is defined 
> properly.. I've heard some things about this in relation to scripts, 
> however the xmame binary is not a script.. I don't really know, but it 
> seems as though the problem has something to do with my libc.. upgrading 
> to a higher version (i.e., 2.3) seems a nonoption, as it would require me 
> to uninstall many, many packages..
> >
> > Included below is a backtrace and an ls -l of my libc..
> >
> > [root at courage orangey]# gdb mythgame
> > GNU gdb 5.2.1-2mdk (Mandrake Linux)
> > This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /usr/local/bin/mythgame
> >
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x40965e4e in __strtol_internal () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > Current language:  auto; currently c
> > (gdb) backtrace
> > #0  0x40965e4e in __strtol_internal () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > #1  0x40963757 in atoi () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > #2  0x0805c775 in MameHandler::processGames() (this=0x80f5250)
> >     at mamehandler.cpp:109
> > #3  0x0805bbba in GameHandler::processAllGames(MythContext*) (
> >     context=0x80ddf50) at gamehandler.cpp:36
> > #4  0x0805afa1 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff6c4) at main.cpp:106
> > #5  0x40951082 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > (gdb) quit
> > The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
> > [root at courage orangey]# ls /lib/i686/
> > libc-2.2.5.so      libm-2.2.5.so      libpthread-0.9.so  librt-2.2.5.so
> > libc.so.6          libm.so.6          libpthread.so.0    librt.so.1
> > [root at courage orangey]# ls /lib/i686/libc.so.6 -l
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jan 12 23:28
> > /lib/i686/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so*
> >
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