From: John Utz (john_at_utzweb.net)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 17:16:27 BST
there is a patch that i assume has gone into the src tree for the next
beta.
i found the problem at the beginning of last week and russ took alook at
it and made a partial fix.
i havent had the chance to apply the patch run the fix( i am having a
perl week, not a C week :-) ), so i cant say for sure that it's completely
repaired.
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Guo, Liang wrote:
>
> Hi, folks:
>
> I recently upgraded my Linux to Redhat 7.1 with a gcc-2.96-85
> package installed. Then I downloaded ups-3.37-beta2 as well
> as ups-3.36 and tryed to install them on my machine.
>
> The frustrating thing is, now whenever I want to trace the
> value of some variable (by clicking on the variable), I come
> across the following error message and the debugger simply
> crashes:
>
> ***
> Fatal internal error: bad number in parse_num (aborting) ...
> Dumping core ... Abort
> ***
>
> So I went back and took a look at the source code, and tried to
> determine what's happened. Here's what I did: I printed the
> symbol ups debugger is trying to parse by replacing:
> if (!parse_number(stf, sr, p_s, &res)) {
> panic("bad number in parse_num");
> }
> with:
> if (!parse_number(stf, sr, p_s, &res)) {
> char buffer[80];
> sprintf(buffer, "bad number in parse_num %s", *p_s);
> panic(buffer);
> }
>
> Then the error message becomes:
>
> ***
> Fatal internal error: bad number in parse_num
> ;0;1;(0,1),0,64;; (aborting) ...
> Dumping core ... Abort
> ***
>
> That means the message passed to "parse_num" call is neither
> a string started with '\\' nor a number, that's why it returns
> a panic call.
>
> I think this bug should be related to Redhat kernels since I've
> never seen it when I use old version of Redhat.
>
> Did anyone come across the same problem? How did you fixed it?
> Thanks a lot! I like ups debugger a lot, the only problem is,
> once you get used to it, you start to hate all other debuggers
> like xxgdb.:)
>
> cheers.
>
>
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John L. Utz III
john_at_utzweb.net
Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life
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