Re: doubtful RPMs?

[Sandor Megyaszai]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alex Lancaster wrote:
>                             the only sure way of tracking down where
> the bug lies, is actually debugging it, and not trying to second-guess
> or assume that you know where the problem lies.

You are right, sorry.

> One other avenue to try, is to download the matching swarmapps
> packages (1.4.1. and 2.0.1) for each of the RPMs, try and compile
> heatbugs for each of these versions, and post your results.  

I've done it:

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swarm-with-hdf5-1.4.1-3.rh6 and swarmapps-1.4
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(gdb) run
Starting program:
/home/megya/tmp/swarm/swarmapps-1.4/heatbugs/./heatbugs 
*** event raised for error: OffsetOutOfRange
*** function: indexAtOffset(), file: Collection.m, line: 109
*** execution terminating due to error

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x4043d111 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4043d111 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x40410f7b in raise (sig=6) at signals.c:63
#2  0x4043e447 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88
#3  0x40188dfa in _i_Error_c__raiseEvent_ () at Symbol.m:179
#4  0x4014fc2f in indexAtOffset (self=0x80fc488, offset=1) at
Collection.m:109
#5  0x4014fcb0 in _i_Collection_any__atOffset_ (self=0x80fc488, 
    _cmd=0x40165958, offset=1) at Collection.m:119
#6  0x40151c67 in _i_InputStream_c__getExpr (self=0x80fc430,
_cmd=0x40165940)
    at InputStream.m:213
#7  0x40151bef in _i_InputStream_c__getExpr (self=0x80fc430,
_cmd=0x40194970)
    at InputStream.m:204
#8  0x40179fa1 in _i_Archiver_c__createEnd (self=0x80fc208,
_cmd=0x40198cf0)
    at Archiver.m:356
#9  0x4018a5ed in initDefobj (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc54, 
    version=0x80b282e "1.3", bugAddress=0x80b2818
"address@hidden", 
    argumentsClass=0x0, options=0x0, optionFunc=0) at defobj.m:155
#10 0x4002df6f in init (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc54, version=0x80b282e
"1.3", 
    bugAddress=0x80b2818 "address@hidden", argumentsClass=0x0, 
    options=0x0, optionFunc=0, forceBatchMode=0) at simtools.m:28
#11 0x4002e061 in initSwarmApp (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc54, 
    version=0x80b282e "1.3", bugAddress=0x80b2818
"address@hidden")
    at simtools.m:59
#12 0x804c3e9 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc54) at main.m:21
#13 0x40436cb3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804c3d0 <main>, argc=1, 
    argv=0xbffffc54, init=0x804b21c <_init>, fini=0x80b22bc <_fini>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000a350 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffc4c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78

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swarm-hdf5-2.0.1-3.rh6 and swarmapps-2.0.1
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address@hidden:~/tmp/swarm/swarmapps-2.0.1/heatbugs>
/usr/local/gdb-200000204/bin/gdb ./heatbugs
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This GDB was configured as
"i686-pc-linux-gnu"..."/home/megya/tmp/swarm/swarmapps-2.0.1/heatbugs/./heatbugs":
not in executable format: File format not recognized

So in this case I was not able to use gdm, but the runtime error of
this version is similar than in the previous case:

address@hidden:~/tmp/swarm/swarmapps-2.0.1/heatbugs> ./heatbugs 
*** event raised for error: OffsetOutOfRange
*** function: indexAtOffset(), file:
/home/alex/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.0.1/src/collections/Collection.m,
line: 110
*** execution terminating due to error
/home/alex/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.0.1/src/defobj/Symbol.m:173 -[Error(c)
_raiseEvent:]
Aborted (core dumped)
-- 
                                                mEGYA.



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