I'm sending this to the Alexandria mailing list. Hi Alexandria people -- this is a bug report filed in the Debian bug tracking system about a crash in Alexandria. Most of the relevant information should be included below, but the full report is available here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290180 Ar 13/01/2005 am 07:13, ysgrifennodd David Weinehall: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:58:05AM +0000, Dafydd Harries wrote: > > Ar 13/01/2005 am 00:25, ysgrifennodd David Weinehall: > > > When you have a sufficiently sized book collection, Alexandria will > > > crash if started in, or switched to, list mode. It will also crash if > > > you try to rearrange the sort order. > > > > > > Trial and error shows that 140 titles works, while 141 titles or more > > > causes the crash; cover pictures or not doesn't matter. > > > > Hmm, I would expect this to be something to do with the 141st title in > > question rather than the number 141. > > This seems a tad bit unlikely, since I have tried different permutations > of books (sorry, I guess I should've mentioned that in the original report). > I will try to repeat the tests on a machine that only uses the libraries > from unstable; on my two main systems I have a few libraries from > experimental installed. Ah, ok. Perhaps 141 is a magic number then. :) > > Did you see any tracebacks on Alexandria's standard output from these > > crashes? If there are any, appending them to the bug report would be > > useful. > > No, there were no tracebacks at all. Hmm, that's unexpected. > Oh, as a further data point; the reason I tagged the bug upstream is > that I downloaded the upstream source and tested that one too, just to > make sure the bug was not Debian specific. Yes, I agree that it's an upstream bug. -- Dafydd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]