>>>>> "Thorsten" == Thorsten Frueauf <s_frueau@ira.uka.de> writes:


Thorsten> gdb -c xpaint.core says: core was generated by `xpaint'.
Thorsten> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.  #0
Thorsten> 0x344de in ?? ()

Thorsten> and I looked up signal 11 with `man errno`:

Thorsten>      11 EDEADLK Resource deadlock avoided. An attempt was
Thorsten> made to lock a sys- tem resource that would have resulted in
Thorsten> a deadlock situation.

	You might try looking it up under man signal() instead.  A
'signal 11' indicates that the program accessed memory that was not
allocated to the process.  It typically indicates that you have
accessed memory though an invalid pointer (but there is no way to
guarentee that it is the case).

Dave.

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