Re: x5250 seg fault

James Rich wrote:

On Sun, 17 May 2009, Porterfield, Sean wrote:

I could have sworn I used to copy/paste all the time with no problems. Today I tried to paste into x5250 and got segmentation fault (repeatedly). I then ran it with strace, but the output doesn't mean anything to me. I'm on Fedora 9, tn5250 0.17.4, x5250 version: 0.5.2-pre4

I use copy/paste all day long without problems on the same versions. It would be useful if you could tell me what you are copying from. From x5250? From xterm? Something else? The most likely explanation that I can think of off the top of my head is that the source of the copy has some kind of data that x5250 isn't handling well. I would really like to reproduce your problem here.

James Rich

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From memory I would say that 99.9% of the time (and maybe all of the time), my crashes are a result of copying from a non-5250 app (could be anything) and pasting in to tn5250. It can happen coming from Word, Excel, Firefox, Notepad, etc.

I can't recall it happening from one 5250 session from another though, although it could have and I just to not recall.