On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 03:45:02PM +0000, ael wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Richard wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 08:14:37PM +0000, ael wrote: > > > I am not sure what is happeing here, but downloading the latest > > > josm version a few minutes ago and attempting to run it crashes > > > Xorg with "Bus error at address 0x0". > > > > > > I am on debian testing, and using > > > > that is more a Debian problem but try running josm with > > strace -f java ... > trace.txt 2>&1 > > ltrace -f java ... > ltrace.txt 2>&1 > > > > and look what happened before the Xserver crashed. Might be something > > that is possible to workaround. > > I was going to try with gdb: I hope there are dbg (with gdb symbols) > versions of the packages around. Will try to find time to look further > maybe later today. As I said in my follow up message, I now don't think > it is likely to be a josm problem.
gdb is surely the best thing to do, even without the debug packages. However sometimes strace/ltrace might also be very usefull. BTW I find it handy to attach strace, ltrace or gdb to running processes with "-p PID" > But I am surprised that no one else seems to have reported such a major > issue. I have sent a message to openjdk@list. it might be related to the particular video driver in the kernel. Did you look at kernel messages? Richard _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev