mapserv segfaults

[Sean Gillies]

John,

Looks to me like you need to re-config mapserver with --enable-debug so
that gdb can tell us more about the calling stack.

cheers,
Sean

On Feb 9, 2005, at 5:08 PM, John C Cartwright wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> thanks for the prompt response and the suggestion.
>
> gdb is just telling me the error occurred in memory allocation, but
> this
> is not helping me much:
>
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /extra/contrib/apache/cgi-bin/mapserver-4.4.1
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread -1218617216 (LWP 8708)]
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread -1218617216 (LWP 8708)]
> 0x039ba0d1 in realloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
>
> I was hoping to tell what request parameter or map configuration
> element
> might be causing trouble. Can you think of any way for me to pursue
> this
> at a higher level?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- john
>
>
>
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> You can run mapserver cgi at the command line, but you need to set up
>> the environment variables first, like
>>
>> export REQUEST_METHOD=GET
>> export QUERY_STRING="...."
>> gdb mapserv
>> run
>>
>> set your QUERY_STRING appropriately
>>
>> -Steve W.
>