Re: Odd problem with libobjc

[Germán Arias <german at xelalug dot org>]

On dom, 2011-07-24 at 18:59 +0100, Nicola Pero wrote:
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > [Switching to Thread 0xb523b6c0 (LWP 24619)]
> > 0xb6e00fe6 in objc_msg_lookup (receiver=0x85b1988, op=0xb7211da0)
> >    at /home/german/Instalados/GCC/gcc-4.6.0/libobjc/sendmsg.c:397
> > 397     /home/german/Instalados/GCC/gcc-4.6.0/libobjc/sendmsg.c: No such
> > file or directory.
> >        in /home/german/Instalados/GCC/gcc-4.6.0/libobjc/sendmsg.c
> > Current language:  auto; currently c
> 
> [...]
> 
> > home/german/Instalados/GCC was the path where I extracted the GCC
> > tarball, when I install it (GCC 4.6.0). The GCC folder don't exist
> > anymore. So I suppose this is a bad configuration problem. I have
> > installed GCC at /usr/local/bin/gcc, but why it search files at my home
> > directory? Any advice to solve this? Thanks.
> 
> The segmentation fault is most likely caused by trying to send a message
> to an object which has already been deallocated.  In other words, it is most
> likely a bug in the program (check retain/release logic etc), not in libobjc.
> It is not a configuration problem. ;-)
> 
> The mention of no longer existing source files in the error messages or in gdb
> most likely doesn't have much to do with the cause of the segmentation fault.  It's
> just trying to tell you where the crash occurred.  If you have deleted the source files,
> they no longer exist, but that should not be a particular problem. :-)
> 
> Thanks

I will try with Valgrind as suggested David in gnustep mail list. But
after the last update I do in gnustep, almost all apps crash :(

Thanks.