Sometimes it can go for days/weeks/ without this popping up.
Other times it can be minutes/hours/days....its extremely random.
>
> From: "Dale Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2002/12/18 Wed PM 02:09:19 EST
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <rom@rom.org>
> Subject: Re: Problems with new_buf
>
> How soon are you having this problem? Is it right when you boot the mud?
> Throught the course of it being up for some time? I had a small problem like
> that, and how I fixed it is when it makes the global variable for the freed
> buffers. Make that = NULL, I did that and my problems went away with some of
> my bugs. But that would only help if it's towards when your first booting
> the mud.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <rom@rom.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:32 AM
> Subject: Problems with new_buf
>
>
> > Every so often my mud crashes, I'm not very well versed at GDB so this
> output is not very helpful...
> >
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x40015f10
> > #0 new_buf () at recycle.c:590
> > 590 buf_free = buf_free->next;
> > (gdb) back
> > #0 new_buf () at recycle.c:590
> > Cannot access memory at address 0xbfff79b8
> > (gdb) list
> > 585 if (buf_free == NULL)
> > 586 buffer = alloc_perm(sizeof(*buffer));
> > 587 else
> > 588 {
> > 589 buffer = buf_free;
> > 590 buf_free = buf_free->next;
> > 591 }
> > 592
> > 593 buffer->next = NULL;
> > 594 buffer->state = BUFFER_SAFE;
> >
> >
> > It appears that the problem is with the line
> > buf_free = buf_free->next;
> >
> > however at this point in gdb im stuck...when I try a
> >
> > p buffer->string
> >
> > I get
> >
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x6961432c
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction GDB wise, so I can track this
> down?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > K
> >
> >
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