[Xastir] Re: Xastir is stack smashing?

[Bill Bird]

Hi all,

I've enjoyed running xastir for several years now on a Slackware V8.0 system 
without incident.  I recently compiled xastir V1.3.2 on my Slackware V8.0 
system.  On this system I normally run Xastir within a VNC X-windows server 
session so I can get to it through a browser anywhere in my house.  While this 
was running the whole system seemed to freeze - no mouse movement, no keyboard 
response; I could not telnet to the system or ping it.  When I rebooted (can't 
remember when I last needed to reboot with Slackware) the system detected a poor 
shutdown and did an fsck.  Next I ran xastir without vnc and came back in a few 
hours and the computer (Cyrix 166/64MB) had tried to reboot unsucessfully - the 
screen showed a complaint about swap and a line of code numbers and stopped on 
the fsck.  After turning the machine off on then on, it booted after the fsck 
ok.  I've been running the Slackware a few days without xastir to see if there 
is any hardware or other problem I'm not aware of.  So far the Slackware is as 
fine as always.

Can I supply some information from any system or xastir files to the group to 
help solve this?  Any ideas.  I've used some cvs in the past but probably was 
running the last stable xastir release for many, many, months prior to recently 
running V1.3.2.  Here is the infomation from the xastir help about screen:

V1.3.2
ShapeLib ImageMagik
GNU/LessTif V2.0 R0.92.32
ImageMagik 5.3.5 07/01/01 Q:16
xvertext routines V5.00

I often connect to the internet with xastir but in all of the above I only had 
the serial port opened to my MFJ-1278B tnc in converse mode.  This model MFJ tnc 
  is "new" for me and I was previously using a MFJ-1276 (which is going in my VW 
Van).

Thanks,

Bill Bird
KG0YJ
Chesterfield, MO
www.billbird.com


Mike Markowski wrote:
On Fri 18-Jun-04 at  947 EDT, Curt, WE7U wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Mike Markowski wrote:


I haven't changed kernels, though, which is the weird thing, because I
agree with you, Chris, that it sounds like a kernel issue.  I'll
keep you posted on any progress I make.

It could also be a mismatch issue with some system libraries.  Are
you compiling Xastir, or running a pre-compiled binary in this case?


I'm doing the whole cvs update, bootstrap.sh thing.  Hmm, maybe I should
do a make clean first and retry.   I did put on a new glibc and gcc a
couple weeks back...  Maybe I have some .o's compiled from one version
and some from the latest.  I'll also try recompiling the latest stable
version and will see if that acts differently.  I'll keep you posted!

     Thanks,
     Mike  AB3AP
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