[Motmot] Segmentation faults

[John Bender]

I made a 32-bit Hardy install on the same machine to see if that was
the issue. Now I'm getting the same backtrace that Jon is reporting. I
will await the outcome of his testing!

JB

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:06 PM, John Schneider <jzschneider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, didn't notice the old packages!
> Unfortunately these are brand new machines that I never bothered to
> register with computing services, so they have only had one kernel
> (2.6.24-23), and they don't have internet.
> Update:
> Older kernel/newer fview - Segfaulted overnight
> New kernel/old motmot packages - still running strong
> I will try to update the motmot package one step at a time (unless you
> know of a reason that will not work) to try to narrow it down.
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Straw <astraw at caltech.edu> wrote:
>> John Schneider wrote:
>>> Hey Andrew,
>>>
>>> I'll downgrade some computers tonight with that earlier kernel and try
>>> some long term acquisition. I'm also going about it another way: I'm
>>> currently running one computer with the current kernel but old fview
>>> packages (generated by apt-on-cd) that I had laying about, too early
>>> to tell if it fixes anything, but could narrow things down as well.
>>> Will update tomorrow,
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> That sounds good, but you don't have to downgrade from CD -- I purposely
>> don't delete the old packages from my server. So you should be able to
>> downgrade by manually installing the correct .debs directly. For
>> example, if you go to http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/?C=M;O=D you'll get
>> the .debs listed in reverse chronological order. From that, I can see
>> that installing
>>
>> http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/libcamiface_0.4.dev716-0ads1_i386.deb
>> http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/camiface_0.4.dev716-0ads1_i386.deb
>> http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/python-motmot-camiface_0.4.1~dev-r637-0ads1_i386.deb
>> http://debs.astraw.com/hardy/python-motmot-fview_0.5.2~dev-r715-0ads1_all.deb
>>
>> should restore the .debs to the situation throughout most of February.
>> (The most recent package of those is from 6 Feb.)
>>
>> Finally, to run the older kernel, you don't have to install any new/old
>> packages: it's just a matter of rebooting.
>>
>> -Andrew
>> --
>> Andrew D. Straw, Ph.D.
>> California Institute of Technology
>> http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/
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