[ardour-dev] latest cvs segfaults on opening some projects

[Shayne O'Connor]

Paul Davis wrote:

>>with the latest cvs (which i managed to get compiled with the
>>jack_recompute_latencies etc) i am unable to open one of my projects. it
>>seems to be only one (out of about six) ... and everytime i go to open
>>it, it segfaults. i switched back to the CCRMA beta29 binary, and it
>>opens the problem project ok (while mentioning "too many panner
>>automation states" or something).
>>
>>what should i do from here to find out what is causing this?
>>    
>>
>
>the same thing you should for any and all segfaults:
>
>    a) rebuild using scons DEBUG=yes
>    b) run it under gdb, following instructions in the FAQ
>    c) email the results to ardour-dev
>
>  
>

not much to report, i'm afraid ...

i followed these instructions but get taken back to the gnome login
screen (running xfce4.2) when i try to open the problem project -
henceforth, i don't really get to see any output.

so i tried piping (?) the output to a text file from the command line,
but this is all that is there when i log back in:

GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.43rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host
libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) ruru(gdb)
(gdb)
(gdb) q


i've never really de-bugged anything using gdb, so maybe it's
ineptitude? thought i'd give it a go, anyway.

shayne