Bug#379137: SIGSEGV: segmentation violation

[Frank S. Thomas]

Hi,

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 17:43, Thomas K wrote:
> I did not attach the output of strace boinc_client because the file was
> about 40 Mb big. But by looking at that output I figured something out: If
> I create a new directory and move all the boinc-xml-files
> (client_state.xml, client_state_prev.xml and so on) to it and then run
> boinc_client from that directory it does not segfault.
> For me it seems as boinc_client is parsing every subdirectory of the
> directory it was startetd from (every subdirectory appeared in the output
> of strace). Before I always started it from my home so there may be just
> too many directories for it. But I guess you will know better than me about
> that ;)

Without looking at the code I'd think that the BOINC client only parses the 
projects/ and slots/ directory in the current working directory, but I'm not 
sure if it even does this.
If you start the client, that you got from the BOINC website, in your home 
directory does it also segfault? And could you please test if version 
5.4.11-3 also segfaults? You can download it here:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/boinc/boinc-client_5.4.11-3_i386.deb

I'm still interested in the strace output, the last 100 lines are enough:
  tail -n 100 <strace_output_file>
And it would be nice if you could run the BOINC client in the GNU Debugger 
(gdb) and send me the output, because I can't reproduce this bug, and 
therefore I can't debug it. 

Grüße,
Frank

P.S.: Please also CC 379137 at bugs.debian.org when replying, thanks. 
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