release: 0.1.21

[lilypond.git] / BUGS

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-This file documents bugs which were "re-introduced" in various pl's
+Document Really Ugly Bugs (coredumps, assert fails, etc)
 
-pl69
-       * slurs.ly
 
-pl68:
-       * opening rests wohltemperirt
-       
-       * lyrics broken,
+[Linux Intel]
+
+LilyPond occasionally crashes while parsing the initialisation files.
+This is a very obscure bug, and usually entering the commandline
+differently "fixes" it.
+
+       lilypond input.ly 
+
+and
+
+       lilypond -I. ./input.ly 
+
+makes a difference
+
+Typical stacktrace:
+
+       SIGSEGV
+       __libc_malloc (bytes=16384)
+       ?? ()
+       yyFlexLexer::yy_create_buffer ()
+       Includable_lexer::new_input (this=0x8209a00, s={strh_ = {
+               :
+
+
+I get bitten by this every once in a while, and I am very interested
+in hints what might be wrong.  This problem has only been identified
+with libc-5.3 and libc-5.4 platforms, so you might try upgrading to
+6.0, ie. GNU libc-2.
+
 
-       * midi broken