id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 2657 SEGV when loading directory hotlist during startup c0da slavazanko "during the startup of mc you can press ctrl+\ for the directory hotlist. when mc is not already 'in memory' eg filecache and not visible yet the application is closed with a SEGV signal. reproduce: type mc\n press ctrl+\ received result: Segmentation Fault expected result: started with the directory hotlist visible workarround: type mc again so far i was not able to debug this problem because it seems like a race condition (keys are received before curses are loaded) and most of the time mc loads faster than i am able to press 'ctrl+\'. situations when this bug occurs are - a fresh reboot - memory swapped out - heavy load - io wait for nfs/sshfs shares this problem has been persistent in the last years between 4.5 and 4.7, unless the startup sequence is changed it should be persistent in the current versions too $ mc --version GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.5.2 Built with GLib 2.28.8 Using the ncurses library With builtin Editor With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, fish Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64; " defect accepted minor Future Releases mc-core master no branch