intermittent segfault upon invocation

[gerard patel]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:38:08 -0400, Ken Barr <kbarr at -no-spam-mit.edu>
wrote:

>Wine release 20010510 on Linux 2.4.4 SMP compiled from source code.
>
>One in ten times, when I start wine (with an executable or without) the
>program will segfault. 

Could be SMP. It's not a very common setup.
I'd suggest trying the same thing on a single processor computer.

>Notes:
>1.  This doesn't happen when I run wine under the debugger.

No idea why :-(

>Any ideas?  If we weren't trying to run batch jobs, I wouldn't care, but
>we need it to run safely when unattended.

Using alpha software for serious jobs is an interesting idea.

<snip>

>When it doesn't:
>% wine --debugmsg +all
>Segmentation fault

How about strace ?

Gerard