On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 03:45:02PM +, ael wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 08:14:37PM +, 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
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