Xfig crashes

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 07:59:50PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> on zooming, sometimes..
>
> does this mean anything to anyone ?
>
> djp at orange:~ $ xfig
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: xfig terminated
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0xb7d52da8]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7d50eb0]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7d505a8]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__overflow+0x53)[0xb7cc3683]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__printf_fp+0x176e)[0xb7c9b26e]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x3ca)[0xb7c94bfa]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xa4)[0xb7d50654]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2d)[0xb7d5059d]
> xfig[0x80f773d]
> xfig[0x80f821b]
> xfig[0x80dc5f5]
> xfig[0x80dd311]
> xfig[0x80bba4d]
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6[0xb7c476a9]
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6[0xb7c47910]
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6(_XtTranslateEvent+0x66b)[0xb7c4813b]
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6(XtDispatchEventToWidget+0x680)[0xb7c1cf70]
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6[0xb7c1d626]
> /usr/lib/libXt.so.6(XtDispatchEvent+0xa7)[0xb7c1c417]
> xfig[0x808918d]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7c6b775]
> xfig[0x804dd91]

My guess would be a bug in one of your X libraries, or a bug in xfig in
how it calls one of the x libraries.

A gdb bactrace would be a lot more useful of course.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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