Segmentation fault when accessing documentation.

[sagetrac-fschulze]

With 5.13.beta2 I get the following

sage: QuadraticField(-5)
Number Field in a with defining polynomial x^2 + 5
sage: QuadraticField?
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/home/schulze/sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/libcsage.so(print_backtrace+0x31)[0x7f0a1f8615f5]
/home/schulze/sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/libcsage.so(sigdie+0x1e)[0x7f0a1f86176c]
/home/schulze/sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/libcsage.so(sage_signal_handler+0x1c0)[0x7f0a1f860f56]
/lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x359c40f500]
/home/schulze/sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/libtinfo.so.5(_nc_init_acs+0x59)[0x7f0a1bc77519]
/lib64/libncursesw.so.5(_nc_setupscreen+0x581)[0x359e017c71]
/lib64/libncursesw.so.5(newterm+0xc9)[0x359e014949]
/lib64/libncursesw.so.5(initscr+0x59)[0x359e011129]
/home/schulze/sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_curses.so(+0x98e6)[0x7f0a1bea38e6]
/home/schulze/sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x5719)[0x7f0a27eef3f9]
/home/schulze/sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x637e)[0x7f0a27ef005e]
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Attaching gdb to process id 9632.
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(gdb) Hangup detected on fd 0
error detected on stdin

Your system GDB is an old version that does not work with pipes
Install the gdb spkg (sage -f gdb) for enhanced tracebacks.
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Unhandled SIGSEGV: A segmentation fault occurred in Sage.
This probably occurred because a *compiled* component of Sage has a bug
in it and is not properly wrapped with sig_on(), sig_off().
Sage will now terminate.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Using ? on other objects has the same effect.

Component: packages: standard

Reviewer: Frithjof Schulze

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15359

[sagetrac-fschulze]

comment:1

I will try to install the gdb package. This is in Scientific Linux

uname -a
Linux ... 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 16 11:13:47 CDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
...

[sagetrac-fschulze]

comment:2

The problem seems to be that Sage picks up my systems ncurses instead of sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib/libncurses.so.

I don't have a wide version of ncurses in sage-5.13.beta2/local/lib, so it might be that #15080 would fix my problems.

[jdemeyer]

comment:3

And, is it fixed now with #15268?

[sagetrac-fschulze]

comment:4

Yes. 5.13.beta3 with #15268 fixed works fine.

[jdemeyer]

Reviewer: Frithjof Schulze