On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Rasdan wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Erik Bernhardson wrote:
>
>> At 08:15 PM 7/18/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> >Well when i select a class(no matter which class) it crashes the mud.
>> >Gdb gives me:
>> >
>> >Core was generated by `bin/circle -q 5000'.
>> >Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>> >Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5.3.12...done.
>> >Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
>> >#0 0x4004156d in __libc_free ()
>> >
>> >And that left me nowhere. Any help or suggestions would be great.
>> >Thanks.
>>
>> Ok, umm, reading the art of debugging at the circlemud www site might
>> help:) from what I've learned, type bt to see the stack, then slect the
>> frame of the last command that makes sense. to load the frame type frame
>> #x, where x is the frame number, which is told to you by bt. That should
>> tell you the exact line number, and file that is causing the crash.
>>
>
>That won't work here, because whenever it's a crash in libc_free, it
>seems to forget where the function was that caused it. Go figure.
>
>I have had this problem, though not in this instance, and it sucks to
>track it down.
>
>For this case, I would suggest looking wherever it is that it writes the
>new file to the plr_index file (probably interpreter.c calling something
>in db.c)
since i am using ascii player files, it uses load_char/save_char from
db.c. I have some working code from another mud i used to run for
practice guess i will check that code as well. btw i have races loaded,
could that be and hint?
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