[sword-devel] BibleTime or Sword crashes on startup on Mac OS X

[Alfonso Guerra]

I'm trying to get bibletime 1.3beta4 to run on Mac OS X using Apple's  
X11 with KDE 3.1. Here's a dump of what happens under gdb:

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Reading symbols for shared libraries ........ done
(gdb) run
Starting program: /sw/bin/bibletime
[Switching to process 3295 thread 0xb03]
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries  
........................................................................ 
.......... done

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x9001b52c in kill ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x9001b52c in kill ()
#1  0x9005ceec in abort ()
#2  0x027b6ff0 in __cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)()) ()
#3  0x027b705c in std::terminate() ()
#4  0x027b7a8c in __cxa_throw ()
#5  0x027b6840 in std::__throw_logic_error(char const*) ()
#6  0x027b6518 in char* std::string::_S_construct<char const*>(char  
const*, char const*, std::allocator<char> const&,  
std::forward_iterator_tag) ()
#7  0x027b3164 in std::string::string(char const*, std::allocator<char>  
const&) ()
#8  0x0277f3ac in sword::LocaleMgr::getLocale(char const*)  
(this=0x27f9de4, name=0x0) at  
/usr/include/gcc/darwin/3.1/g++-v3/bits/stl_alloc.h:630
#9  0x0276b2ec in sword::VerseKey::setLocale(char const*)  
(this=0x10696c, name=0x0) at ../src/keys/versekey.cpp:159
#10 0x0276ae8c in sword::VerseKey::VerseKey(char const*)  
(this=0x10696c, ikey=0x0) at ../src/keys/versekey.cpp:91
#11 0x000e34bc in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) ()
#12 0x8fe16594 in __dyld_call_module_initializers_for_objects ()
#13 0x8fe160a0 in __dyld_call_module_initializers ()
#14 0x8fe133ac in __dyld__dyld_make_delayed_module_initializer_calls ()
#15 0x00002598 in _call_mod_init_funcs () at  
/SourceCache/Csu/Csu-45/crt.c:299
#16 0x00002480 in _start (argc=1, argv=0xbffffaac, envp=0xbffffab4) at  
/SourceCache/Csu/Csu-45/crt.c:217
#17 0x000023e0 in start ()
(gdb) list sword::VerseKey::setLocale
141
142             --instance;
143     }
144
145
146     void VerseKey::setLocale(const char *name) {
147             char *BMAX;
148             struct sbook **books;
149             bool useCache = false;
150
(gdb)
151             if (localeCache.name)
152                     useCache = (!strcmp(localeCache.name, name));
153
154             if (!useCache)  {       // if we're setting params for  
a new locale
155                     stdstr(&(localeCache.name), name);
156                     localeCache.abbrevsCnt = 0;
157             }
158
159             SWLocale *locale = (useCache) ? localeCache.locale :  
LocaleMgr::systemLocaleMgr.getLocale(name);
160             localeCache.locale = locale;
(gdb)
161
162             if (locale) {
163                     locale->getBooks(&BMAX, &books);
164                     setBooks(BMAX, books);
165                     setBookAbbrevs(locale->getBookAbbrevs(),  
localeCache.abbrevsCnt);
166                     localeCache.abbrevsCnt = abbrevsCnt;
167             }
168             else {
169                     setBooks(builtin_BMAX, builtin_books);
170                     setBookAbbrevs(builtin_abbrevs,  
localeCache.abbrevsCnt);

It's difficult to tell *why* it's failing, but it is. Perhaps the  
globals aren't being initialized in the correct order. In any case, a  
solution or possible causes would be appreciated.

Alfonso