It should be possible to use the 32bit package on amd64, by installing with
dpkg -i ---force-architecture, but you will need a whole load of other
32bit library packages as well.
Compiling the source with -o0 instead of the default -o2 stops the
crash, but losing all optimisations in a grep tool is not very cool.
Still, maybe this discovery suggests the 'upstream' tag should come off.
The crash occurs in savestate.c ~ line 1500 in function
tree_selection_changed_cb near or on the statement g_free(tmpString2);
Creating a new variable tmpstring3, and using that for the following
generateContentOptionsString call seems to fix the problem.
I hope to attach a patch file with this message. Email me privately if
you want the patched source file and/or rebuilt binary package.
Also, I notice that another patch fix has been posted here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/searchmonkey/+bug/178701
Peter
P.S.
I have not found any other GUI grep tool than comes close to the
use-ability of searchmonkey.
--- savestate.c 2007-02-05 22:55:51.000000000 +0000
+++ savestate.c 2012-08-04 23:33:14.607114002 +0100
@@ -1425,6 +1425,7 @@
GtkTreeModel *model;
gchar *fullFileName, *size, *mdate, tmpString[MAX_FILENAME_STRING + 1];
gchar *tmpString2;
+ gchar *tmpString3;
GtkTextIter txtIter, tmpIter;
GtkTextIter start, end;
gsize count, tmpCount;
@@ -1486,9 +1487,9 @@
g_free(tmpString2);
/* Add line to describe options applied at run-time */
- tmpString2 = generateContentOptionsString(mSearchControl);
+ tmpString3 = generateContentOptionsString(mSearchControl);
gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags_by_name (buffer, &txtIter, tmpString2, -1, "no_context", NULL);
- g_free(tmpString2);
+ g_free(tmpString3);
//g_static_mutex_lock(&mutex_Data);
if (mSearchControl->flags & SEARCH_EXTRA_LINES) {
