Re: Building ROOT from source on Fedora 11

I cannot reproduce this problem.
Could you compile ROOT in debug mode, then run the valgrind memory-checker on root.exe?

Rene Brun

Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi ROOT users,
>
> I tried building 5.24 and ran into this problem. So I tried the latest
> trunk from svn for 5.25, but no luck. :(
>
> It builds just fine without any errors (but a few warnings) with the
> following options:
>
>> Enabled support for asimage, astiff, builtin_afterimage,
>> builtin_ftgl, builtin_freetype, builtin_pcre, builtin_zlib, cint5,
>> cintex, exceptions, fftw3, genvector, gsl_shared, mathmore, memstat,
>> minuit2, opengl, python, reflex, roofit, shadowpw, shared, soversion,
>> ssl, tmva, unuran, xft, xml, xrootd.
>
> When I open a TBrowser and browse a ROOT file with histograms everything
> is fine. But after I save one of those histograms say as an image or a
> ROOT macro and then try to close the TBrowser, ROOT segfaults. The
> TBrowser window freezes, and the whole terminal becomes non-responsive.
> The only way to kill every thing is to do `kill -9 <PID_for_root
> PID_for_root.exe>'.
>
> I have attached the error ROOT spits out on segfaulting as a text file.
>
> My system specifications:
> 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.x86_64
> ROOT 5.25/03
> g++ (GCC) 4.4.1 20090725 (Red Hat 4.4.1-2)
>
> Thank you for any insights into solving this.
>
Received on Mon Oct 05 2009 - 08:47:02 CEST