[IRCServices Coding] Version 5 Beta Segfaults (warning, newbie submitter)

[Daffy_Duc]

Hey people
I've run into a teeny problem and I was hoping that someone out there would
be able to help me.

I've been trying to get version 5beta running for a while now with no luck.
I was following the version 5alpha releases very closely and playing around
with them, but while version 5 was in alpha it was working fine on my old
redhat machine.

I recently installed Debian on a new machine that I had lying around and now
I cant get ircservices 5 working, not even one of the alpha versions.
Perhaps I'm missing a library of some sort.

Im running Debian, so I used the .deb package and it gave the same error as
below, so I tried to install it from the source, but still did the same
thing.

<Begins large dump of hopefully useful info>

Versions:
ii  gcc            2.95.4-14      The GNU C compiler.
ii  make           3.79.1-14      The GNU version of the "make" utility.


What happens:
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ircd at goliath:~/ircservices$ ./ircservices -debug
Segmentation fault
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no log file is created, so I cant show any output from it.

I even recompiled with the option to core dump, and it didn't. Couldn't find
the core file anywhere

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ircd:~/ircservices$ ./ircservices -debug
Segmentation fault
ircd:~/ircservices$ ls
ircservices  ircservices-chk  lib
ircd:~/ircservices$ cd lib
ircd:~/ircservices$ ls
convert-db                example-modules.conf  ircservices.conf  modules
example-ircservices.conf  helpfiles             languages
modules.conf
ircd:~/ircservices$
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Seeing as I couldn't find a core file.. I decided to try gdb anyway
(I really dont know what I'm doing, I'm just trying to provide as much
information as possible)

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ircd at goliath:~/ircservices$ gdb
GNU gdb 2002-04-01-cvs
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-linux".
(gdb) file ircservices
Reading symbols from ircservices...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/ircd/ircservices/ircservices

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0804e34c in do_all_directives (action=0, directives=0x805f7d8) at
conffile.c:69
69                      *(int32 *)d->params[i].ptr = val.intval;
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0804e34c in do_all_directives (action=0, directives=0x805f7d8) at
conffile.c:69
#1  0x0804f214 in configure (modulename=0x0, directives=0x805f7d8, action=3)
at conffile.c:549
#2  0x0804f55d in read_config () at init.c:141
#3  0x0804ff35 in init (ac=1, av=0xbffffe24) at init.c:584
#4  0x0805224b in main (ac=1, av=0xbffffe24, envp=0xbffffe2c) at main.c:168
(gdb)
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I hope this is enough info for you to work with.

Kieran