[gdal-dev] gdal 1.5.1 Bus Error - core dump on Solaris 9

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Gong, Shawn (Contractor)
<Shawn.Gong at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> hi list,
>
> I have been using gdal 1.4, and have recently built gdal 1.5.1 for its
> large image support.
> Gdal 1.5.1 and OpenEV 1.8 building was fine. Then I encounter Bus Error
> - core dump on Solaris 9.
> I have tracked it down to where the Bus Error occurred:
>  gtiff_driver = gdal.GetDriverByName( 'GTiff' )
>  self.new_ds = gtiff_driver.CreateCopy( fname, vrtds, ...
> A "core" file is generated and kept growing to near half GB.
>
> I have followed Frank's advices of using -fPIC during compiling, and
> rebuilt Gdal 1.5.1 from scratch. But I still get the same error.

Shawn,

I don't know what is happening here.  I would suggest you
try and replicate the crash in gdb and get a traceback for
a clue of what is going wrong.

Best regards,

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