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From: Christopher Schwan <cschwan@××××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] Sage-4.5.3 segmentation fault
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:45:51
Message-Id: 201010261145.32136.cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] Sage-4.5.3 segmentation fault by v_2e@ukr.net
1 Hi!
2
3 On Tuesday 26 October 2010 11:32:23 v_2e@×××.net wrote:
4 > Hello!
5 > After a recent software update on my amd64-based machine, I get the
6 > following message trying to launch Sage:
7 >
8 > ------------------------------------------------------------
9 > Unhandled SIGSEGV: A segmentation fault occurred in Sage.
10 > This probably occurred because a *compiled* component
11 > of Sage has a bug in it (typically accessing invalid memory)
12 > or is not properly wrapped with _sig_on, _sig_off.
13 > You might want to run Sage under gdb with 'sage -gdb' to debug this.
14 > Sage will now terminate (sorry).
15 > ------------------------------------------------------------
16 >
17 > And then it just exits. I have no idea where to search for the reasons
18 > of such behaviour, so decided to ask here. :)
19
20 I need a bit more of information - do you use the latest stable (4.5.3) or the
21 release candiate version ? Is there any additional text printed which gives a
22 hint ?
23
24 >
25 > Thanks.
26 > Vladimir
27 >
28 > -----
29 > <v_2e@×××.net>
30
31 Cheers,
32
33 Christopher