> On 26 Feb 2011 at 17:32, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote: > >> What does Signal #6 refer to. I am doing my first real job with >> 1.4.0 RC1 >> and I've had the system error out with that code twice in the last >> twenty >> minutes. I am very unaccustomed to seeing errors with 1.3.9 or >> 1.3.9, both >> of which i used for my last issue. >> >> -- >> John Ghormley KJ4UFG > > After reading your note I tried doing some in frame text editing and > after short time > Scribus crashed with the error message "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION". > > Remember, this is Beta software.
Not for much longer I believe ! If you use linux, man signal may (but probably may not) give you some clues. My guess is judging by the observation above, a memory allocation error has occurred, the program called abort and the process died from the abort, sig 6 I will try to crash it with my 1.4.0 (on linux), though I just finished a pretty big job without any problems. -- Owen
