MacVim caught deadly signal - text-editor

When I start MacVim within terminal I get a nasty error message saying it has caught a deadly singal SEGV. I really don't know what's going on. Like wise when I start the application by double clicking it on my Doc the app opens but I can't do anything.
Is there any way to fix this?

I have had the same problem, and traced it to the Command-T plugin containing native extensions that were compiled against a different version of Ruby (1.8) to the one in my environment (1.9).
I recommend disabling all of your plugins/addons, and re-enabling them one by one.
You might get more of a hint what's going wrong by running MacVim's vim process inside gdb (Xcode required):
paul#paulbookpro ~ βΈ© gdb /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim [11:20:55]
GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1705) (Fri Jul 1 10:50:06 UTC 2011)
...
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for shared libraries ................ done
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-61/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim
Hopefully gdb will report some useful information about the segfault, and you can use commands like backtrace to get more data.
Good luck.

Signal SEGV means "segmentation violation" and generally indicates a bug in the application. You can try reinstalling it, or contact the software vendor.

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LeakSanitizer not working under gdb in Ubuntu 18.04?

I've upgraded my Linux development VM from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 recently, and noticed one thing that has changed. This is on x86-64. With 16.04, I've always had this workflow where I'd build the project I'm working on with gcc (5.4, the stock version in 16.04) and -fsanitize=address and -O0 -g, and then run the executable through gdb (7.11.1, also the version that came with Ubuntu). This worked fine, and at the end, LeakSanitizer would produce a leak report if it detected memory leaks.
In 18.04, this doesn't seem to work anymore; LeakSanitizer complains about running under ptrace:
==5820==LeakSanitizer has encountered a fatal error.
==5820==HINT: For debugging, try setting environment variable LSAN_OPTIONS=verbosity=1:log_threads=1
==5820==HINT: LeakSanitizer does not work under ptrace (strace, gdb, etc)
Then the program crashes:
Thread 1 "spyglass" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
__GI_raise (sig=sig#entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:51
I'm not sure what is causing the new behavior. On 18.04 I'm building with the default gcc shipped (7.3.0), using -fsanitize=address -O0 -g and debugging with the default gdb (8.1.0). Can the old behavior be somehow re-enabled? Or do I need to change my workflow and detach from the program before killing it to get a leak report?
LeakSanitizer internally uses ptrace, probably to suspend all threads such that it can scan for leaks without false positives (see issue 9). Only one application can use ptrace, so if you run your application under gdb or strace, then LeakSanitizer won't be able to attach via ptrace.
If you are not interested in leak debugging, disable it:
export ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0
If you do want to enable leak debugging, you must detach the debugger before LeakSanitizer starts scanning. To be able to attach a debugger shortly afterwards, sleep a bit (for example, 10 seconds):
export ASAN_OPTIONS=sleep_before_dying=10
./program
Then in another shell, attach to the application again:
gdb -q -p $(pidof program)
For more a description of the above (and other) options, see https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerFlags.

visual c++ for linux stopped (tty input)

whenever i have a scanf statement in my code in a linux project using visuall c++ for linux ion visual studio i get the following message:
(gdb) 1021-var-delete var1
Stopped (tty input)
can anyone help me along with this?
Both gdb and your program want to read from the standard input. gdb wins. If you want to debug a program that reads/writes on the terminal, you might want to run the program on a separate terminal, and attach to that process using gdb.
Further reading:
Running Programs Under GDB

OpenCV keeps "uninstalling" itself (Linux)

Really annoying issue here. On Linux Mint OS. Every so often, I'll get this error when running OpenCV code:
HIGHGUI ERROR: V4L/V4L2: VIDIOC_S_CROP
OpenCV Error: Unspecified error (The function is not implemented. Rebuild the library with Windows, GTK+ 2.x or Carbon support. If you are on Ubuntu or Debian, install libgtk2.0-dev and pkg-config, then re-run cmake or configure script) in cvNamedWindow, file /home/ravi/Desktop/opencv/OpenCV-2.1.0/src/highgui/window.cpp, line 180
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cv::Exception'
what(): /home/ravi/Desktop/opencv/OpenCV-2.1.0/src/highgui/window.cpp:180: error: (-2) The function is not implemented. Rebuild the library with Windows, GTK+ 2.x or Carbon support. If you are on Ubuntu or Debian, install libgtk2.0-dev and pkg-config, then re-run cmake or configure script in function cvNamedWindow
The way to fix this, I've found, it to do the following:
cd OpenCV/
cd build/
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
<restart computer>
Then I'll come back, start running my OpenCV code again, and it'll be fine. But then a few hours later, or possibly between turning cpu on/off, I'll be back to the same stupid error!
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here and how I can prevent this? It's frustrating as hell.
It sounds like a general critical error in the program code. Is there a specific task that is done when the error occurs? You might want to use strace to get the output of the program as it runs or enable application memory dumps for the user you are running the process as. This would be passed to the developer for debugging and inspection.
I believe the problem was solved by paying attention to where my USB camera was actually located in /dev/. Giving a faulty path to the get video source functions causes this type of error; restarting my computer occasionally shifted which /dev/video# my device was attached to.
Please do ls /dev/vid* to find out if you're using the right video source!

How can I change how eclipse invokes gdb in linux?

In short, I need to understand how to configure eclipse to run "optirun gbd" instead of "gdb". An explanation of what exactly I'm trying to accomplish follows.
I need to run my debug app in eclipse such that it will use the nvidia optimus card instead of the integrated card. My app requires opengl support that is only available this way.
I've got a laptop with an nvidia optimus video card. I'm running linux (ubuntu). I've successfully set up bumblebee such that I can take advantage of the optimus technology. This requires that, to use the nvidia card, I run a given program "foo" with the program "optirun:" optirun foo.
I need to configure eclipse to launch my program in debug mode under optirun. If I run from command line: optirun gdb app everything works as expected.
Edit: Changing the "GDB Debugger" field inside the debug configuration to optirun gdb does not work. Lanching eclipse by optirun eclipse does, however. But this is a detriment to battery life.
Go to "Debug Configurations", open "Debugger" tab. Change "GDB debugger" from gdb to optirun gdb.
Works in Eclipse Juno, Ubuntu 12.04.
Since I'm sure eclipse uses the shell to execute the program, a workaround is to alias gdb to optirun gdb in ~/.bashrc
I look into this issue today and I found another solution. As long as you have Bumblebee installed (http://www.bumblebee-project.org/) and you know you can attach optirun to an executable (try with glxgears for example) you can attach it to cuda-gdb.
What I did is create a script:
#!/bin/bash
optirun /usr/local/cuda/bin/cuda-gdb $*
And save it to /usr/local/cuda/bin or somewhere else it doesn't matter, with the appropriate permissions for execution (755).
What it does is very simple, it runs optirun cuda-gdb args where args is whatever the command line sends it.
In terminal just run opti_cuda-gdb with or without arguments.
For example I named it opti_cuda-gdb and placed it in that directory (which conveniently is added to the path if CUDA is properly configured).
If you use an IDE to develop, like say Netbeans, point the debbuger executable to that script.
I've been successfully compiled and debbuged code using CuSparse and CuBlas with NetBeans running in a SAMSUNG SF410 with Nvidia Optimus and Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10.
I'm open to provide further details if you think I omitted something.

running binary on different machine causes segfault

I'm not well versed in how linking happens in c++
I have a binary that i compiled on one machine and i'd like to copy it and run it on another machine.
I would expect this to work, because the libraries are the same on both machines (i think!) and the version of linux is the same (same kernel, etc.) However, when i copy it over... it appears to segfault in one of the libraries i am dynamically linking when i run it.
It runs like butter on the machine that i compiled it on. But on the machine that i scp'd it over to, when i run the binary, it instantly segfaults on a std::string::compare in a call stack with some functions in one of the libraries i am dynamically linking.
i tried installing the libraries again on both machines and doing ldconfig, but same results.
any ideas on how to debug these kind of weird segfaults caused by dynamic linking issues?
Well, it might help narrow down the problem if you run the program in a debugger. When compiling, add the -g -ggdb arguments to the g++ command, then when running the program, use the command gdb ./executable (you may need to install gdb first.) At the gdb prompt, type run and your program will run until it segfaults. Then you can try to figure out what went wrong.
There are plenty of tutorials for using gdb (the GNU debugger) online.
Sounds like a binary compatibility issue. This SO link might shed some light:
Creating a generic binary in linux for all x86 machines

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