At 12:32 23/11/01 -0600, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>According to Marcus Valentine:
>> At 11:04 23/11/01 -0600, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>> >According to Marcus Valentine:
>> >> On my intranet, there is a unfortunate xls file. Although the xls
file is
>> >> only 266 kb big, converting it with xlhtml 0.3 at the command line
results
>> >> in a 37 Mb html file. (Running with the -a option [aggressive html
>> >> optimization] reduces the file size to 23 Mb).
>> >>
>> >> Running htdog 3.1.5 with doc2html.pl version 3 calling xlhtml 0.3
results
>> >> in an htdig core dump when it gets to this document. Htdig runs on Linux
>> >> Redhat 6.2
>> >...
>> >> Read a total of 272384 bytes
>> >> Aborted (core dumped)
>> >
>> >I find it interesting that the reason for the core dump is an abort, and
>> >not a segfault or something like that. Aborts are usually a deliberate
>> >action by the program, and are usually preceded by an explanation. The
>> >only aborts in 3.1.5 are in the DB code, I think. A stack backtrace might
>> >provide some clues as to the problem and hopefully a solution or
prevention.
>>
>> I don't know how to do this at the moment. Could you not reproduce the
>> problem by creating an enormous html file (some real stuff at the beginning
>> and then tens of thousands of lines with <td> </td>) and letting htdig
>> loose on it?
>
>This assumes that the problem leading htdig to abort is the enormity of
>the html file it gets from doc2html.pl, or the large number of repeated
>td's with . This is by no means a given. There are very likely
>other factors involved, and trying to reproduce the problem with the
>little information I have would most likely be a wild goose chase.
>
>All you need to do is run "gdb /path/to/htdig /path/to/core" and do a
>"bt" command, as explained in the FAQ.
Here it is
[marcusv@pingu htdig]$ gdb /usr/sbin/htdig ./core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/htdig -i -s -v -c htdigtor027.conf'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nis.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_dns.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
#0 0x400a6d21 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x400a6d21 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x400a6996 in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27
#2 0x400a80b8 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88
#3 0x40057e55 in __default_terminate () from
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
#4 0x40057e72 in __terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
#5 0x4005875b in __throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
#6 0x8054c65 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#7 0x400a09cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x80543f0 <strcpy+40380>, argc=6,
argv=0xbffffb64, init=0x8049da4 <_init>, fini=0x8090eac <_fini>,
rtld_fini=0x4000aea0 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffb5c) at
../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92
(gdb) bt full
#0 0x400a6d21 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
No locals.
#1 0x400a6996 in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27
No locals.
#2 0x400a80b8 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88
act = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0x502, sa_sigaction =
0x502}, sa_mask = {__val = {1073938433, 0, 1073986584, 1073942560,
1073919744, 1073825464, 0, 0, 6, 1073827360, 2, 3221223248,
1073940256, 1073825980, 3221223284, 1073784893, 1073825424, 1073827632, 7,
1073784718, 1074168748, 1074399690, 3221223520, 1073825464,
1073930208, 1074169260, 1073981512, 1074320832, 3221223320, 1073785264,
1075277176, 3221223520}}, sa_flags = 1074429936, sa_restorer =
0x400146b8}
sigs = {__val = {32, 0 <repeats 31 times>}}
#3 0x40057e55 in __default_terminate () from
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
No locals.
#4 0x40057e72 in __terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
No locals.
#5 0x4005875b in __throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
No locals.
#6 0x8054c65 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
No symbol table info available.
#7 0x400a09cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x80543f0 <strcpy+40380>, argc=6,
argv=0xbffffb64, init=0x8049da4 <_init>, fini=0x8090eac <_fini>,
rtld_fini=0x4000aea0 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffb5c) at
../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92
argv = (char **) 0xbffffae8
rtld_fini = (void (*)()) 0xbffff984
stack_end = (void *) 0x401781cc
(gdb)
Thanks
Marcus Valentine
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