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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:29:52 -0700
From: Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] PCB segfault - project too big?
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:11:02 +0200
Richard Rasker <rasker AT linetec DOT nl> wrote:

> Op dinsdag 11-10-2011 om 10:42 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef DJ
> Delorie:
> > I have panels with over 800 elements on them, and an individual
> > board with 412.  There are no hard-coded limits in PCB that
> > would affect the number of elements.
> > 
> > When you build pcb, there's a pcbtest.sh script in src/ that
> > accepts a -gdb option, which runs pcb in a debugger.  Once it
> > crashes, type "where" to find out *where* it crashed.
>...
> But thanks for the help so far, hopefully the problem can be
> solved without reinstalling pcb (or my complete Linux version ...)

Richard,

Try running pcb using the Valgrind tool.  Run it with
“valgrind pcb” and report the output.  Valgrind will make pcb run
much slower than normal since it intercepts all memory access, but
be patient since it often provides extremely useful memory
debugging diagnostics.

Regards,
Colin