[Xastir] xastir crash

[Matt Werner]

At the time I believe I was displaying a number of different maps:

I have county outline maps, not the NOAA ones, that end in .map.
I was/am using Shapefiles heavily.
I believe I also displaying small topo map pieces (.GIF/.geo).

73 - Matt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Matt Werner" <kb0kqa at arrl.net>
Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] xastir crash


> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Matt Werner wrote:
>
> > I just had xastir crash.  It was in the middle of redrawing the maps
when I
> > told it to index all maps.
> >
> > Here's what I got on the xterm it was running from:
> >
> > xastir: error.c:738: ThrowException: Assertion `exception->signature ==
> > 0xabacadabUL' failed.
>
> That's not Xastir code, as we don't have an "error.c", and we dont'
> have "ThrowException".  That sounds like a C++ or Java routine, and
> is most likely inside ImageMagick or one of the other libraries you
> have compiled in.
>
> What sort of maps did you have selected when this happened?  Most
> likely Xastir sent something off to one of the libraries that was
> outside it's parameters, like a bad pointer, because you didn't have
> the proper info to send it due to the reindexing.
>
> Xastir still shouldn't have done that.  If we can track down the
> mechanism for the crash, we can solve it.  You've exercised a bug
> in the code through a method I hadn't even thought about trying.
> One of the benefits of having lots of users out there:  They _find_
> things.  ;-)
>
>
> > It's the first and only time I've ever had the program crash, so no
> > complaints here, just FYI to anyone that may care...
>
> Wish I could say I've never had it crash.  When I started playing
> with it, it was normal to have it crash often.  A few years ago now.
>
> --
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