[rfk-dev] NOTABUG: segfault in ncurses

David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
Thu Nov 8 17:30:54 PST 2012


On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Sam Phillips wrote:

> Hey so this is most likely not a bug in rfk, but it is causing me
> problems.  rfk appears to segfault in libncurses in the call to
> start_color
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7fb678b in start_color () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5
> #1  0x08049824 in init (num=20) at robotfindskitten.c:391
> #2  0x08048f87 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff224) at robotfindskitten.c:718
> (gdb)
>
> This is on Ubuntu Precise running on a 32bit linode vm.  I have a
> 64bit laptop also running Precise and it is not having any problems.
>
> Has anyone else seen something like this happen?

This happens to me with an Athlon XP (32-bit) and a Thinkpad T42 (32-bit)

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