[racket-dev] Seg fault

From: Evgeny Odegov (oev-racket at sibmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 23:34:29 EDT 2014

There is nothing specific (I guess you mean unsafe functions or FFI).
I noticed that most frequently crash happens while background expansion
process.


> I also tried both the 64 and 32 bit builds on my windows vm and
> couldn't get it to crash.
>
> Is there something specific you're doing in drracket? I just opened a
> few files and clicked around and nothing untoward happened.
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I'm not able to replicate the
>> crash, so I'm not sure what to recommend.
>>
>> If you have Visual Studio installed, then it may offer to open a
>> debugger, or you could attach to the process while a "program has
>> crashed" dialog is showing. A C-level backtrace extracted from the
>> debugger might be helpful.
>>
>> If you don't have Visual Studio installed, does the OS offer any
>> additional information at all?
>>
>> At Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:54:15 +0700 (NOVT), "Evgeny Odegov" wrote:
>>> Today some conditions met on my machine and DrRacket began to crash
>>> almost
>>> immediately after run. So I reproduced it many times.
>>>
>>> The results of last several crashes:
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 31a3a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 31a3a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 31a3a4c
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 25863a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 25863a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 25863a4c
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 29e93a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 29e93a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 29e93a4c
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 4223a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 4223a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 4223a4c
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 1c55392ac
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 1c55392ac
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 1c55392ac
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 256b41fc
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 256b41fc
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 256b41fc
>>>
>>> Racket version: (32 bit x86) 6.1.0.2--2014-07-14(c7dd72a/a)
>>> OS: Windows 7 Prof 64 bit
>>>
>>> I also decided to try current snapshot 6.1.0.3--2014-07-30(f3a8883/a).
>>> The crashes are repeated:
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 2b9c3a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 2b9c3a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 2b9c3a4c
>>>
>>> *  Seg fault (internal error) at 28b53a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 28b53a4c
>>>    Seg fault (internal error) at 28b53a4c
>>>
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