Recent yum update: nedit 'text copy' causes segmentation fault

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Fri Sep 14 08:26:19 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> When I open nedit editor, and I mark an area with the mouse,
> then whenever I want to copy the text (either via the regular
> menu, or with the right-mouse-click menu), nedit gets a
> segmentation fault and explodes!!

Yeah it's broken here as well

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7eb6266 in XmCreateErrorDialog () from /usr/lib/libXm.so.2
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7eb6266 in XmCreateErrorDialog () from /usr/lib/libXm.so.2
#1  0xb7eb6b49 in XmCreateErrorDialog () from /usr/lib/libXm.so.2
#2  0x080a5b0f in CopyToClipboard (w=0x835cb60, time=52184044) at
textSel.c:170
#3  0x47d68953 in XtCallActionProc () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#4  0x0805f2cd in doActionCB (w=0x82e3bf0, clientData=0x80ed7c0,
callData=0xbfe4d22c) at menu.c:1369
#5  0x47d3d3fb in XtCallCallbackList () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#6  0xb7efb39f in XmCreateErrorDialog () from /usr/lib/libXm.so.2
#7  0xb7ef0a52 in XmCreateErrorDialog () from /usr/lib/libXm.so.2
#8  0x47d4b738 in XtDispatchEventToWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#9  0x47d4bd9a in XmCreateErrorDialog () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#10 0x47d4ac77 in XtDispatchEvent () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#11 0x47d4ae2c in XtAppMainLoop () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#12 0x0804f4c4 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x3000193
) at nedit.c:763
#13 0x45b4ff70 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#14 0x0804e611 in _start ()

Seems the problem is in libXm due to the recent update of lesstif.

lesstif-0.95.0-19.fc7  Build Date: Sun 02 Sep 2007 09:58:45 PM BST

If you want to go on using nedit, Bugzilla it I guess.  Or use kwrite or
kate.. I think you'd like them.

-Andy




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