[SOLVED] texstudio segfaults on Mageia 6

[kenkay]

Hello Everyone:
I just upgraded to Mageia 6 and found that running texstudio causes an immediate crash with the message
Segmentation fault (core dumped). This is from the installed package texstudio-2.12.4-1mga6.x86_64.
Running strace gives a long stream of messages that don't seem suspicious to me, ending with

brk(0x30c9000) = 0x30c9000
brk(0x30ea000) = 0x30ea000
brk(0x310b000) = 0x310b000
brk(0x312c000) = 0x312c000
brk(0x314d000) = 0x314d000
brk(0x316e000) = 0x316e000
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=NULL} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++

Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone know what to do?
Ken

[doktor5000]

Does that also happen under a freshly created user account?

In case it does, you would need to install the relevant -debuginfo packages and submit a bugreport with a full backtrace. See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Debugging_software_crashes
and https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly
For completeness's sake and also to allow others to follow up on that bug report, please also post the link to it here in the thread, thanks.

[kenkay]

The problem seems to be the configuration file ./config/texstudio/texstudio.ini left over from Mageia 5. After renaming this file, TeXStudio started successfully and recreated the file. I tried this because I found reports of segfaults that were eliminated by editing texstudio.ini, although my file did not have the lines that caused the previous crashes.

Thanks for the helpful suggestions.
Ken