[erlang-questions] Re: Debugger fault at startup.

[Attila Rajmund Nohl]

I've just tested on R14B on SuSE 10 and the wx demo works fine... My
gut feeling is that your build was not properly built. Or you might
have a hardware error.

2010/9/27, Michael Richter <ttmrichter@REDACTED>:
> After reading Pascal Chapier's message, I tried something else.  From a
> fresh, unaltered build of R14B on a pretty bog-standard Ubuntu 10.04
> installation typing "wx:new()." in the shell generates precisely the same
> crash message.  This leads me to believe that wx is badly broken in R14B.
>  Trying either "wx:new()." or "debugger:start()." in R14B on a completely
> standard Windows XP system causes the VM to crash instantly, whether run as
> werl.exe or erl.exe.  I happen to also have R13B02 on that machine and the
> same problem is exhibited there.
>
> It looks to me like wx support is really badly broken and has been for some
> time.
>
> On 27 September 2010 12:22, Michael Richter <ttmrichter@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> So, for the first time I find myself having to fire up the debugger in
>> Erlang.  Following the user manual, I do this:
>>
>> $ erl
>>
>> Erlang R14B (erts-5.8.1) [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [rq:2]
>>> [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:true]
>>
>>
>>> Eshell V5.8.1  (abort with ^G)
>>
>> 1> debugger:start().
>>
>> beam.smp: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr)
>>> (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct
>>> malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >=
>>> (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk,
>>> fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) -
>>> 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) ==
>>> 0)' failed.
>>
>>                                  Aborted
>>
>> $
>>
>>
>> I don't even know where to begin here.  Is there any expert on the
>> debugger's inner workings that knows both what that means and what can be
>> done about it?
>>
>> --
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of
> entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people.
> It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."
> --Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
>