mc segfaults on start

[gorsa]

Segfault at start with latest git version:
$gdb mc
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <​http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/mc

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7ce625b in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0xb7ce625b in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1 0xb7cb5812 in vfprintf () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0xb7cd68ec in vasprintf () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3 0xb7e2ec17 in g_vasprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0xb7e1bc06 in g_strdup_vprintf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0xb7e1bc2b in g_strdup_printf () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0x08097ec7 in mc_skin_colors_old_configure_one (mc_skin=0x813780c, the_color_string=<value optimized out>) at colors-old.c:169
#7 0x08098019 in mc_skin_colors_old_configure (mc_skin=0x813780c) at colors-old.c:190
#8 0x0807d3d9 in mc_skin_init (error=0xbfdbb344) at common.c:132
#9 0x080579db in main (argc=1, argv=Cannot access memory at address 0x5
) at main.c:489
(gdb) quit

[andrew_b]

Please show the [Colors] section in your ~/.config/mc/ini file.

[gorsa]

[Colors]
base_color=linux:normal=white,black:marked=,black:input=,green:menu=black:menusel=white:menuhot=red,:menuhotsel=black,red:dfocus=white,black:dhotnormal=white,black:dhotfocus=white,black:executable=,black:directory=white,black:link=white,black:device=white,black:special=white,black:core=,black:stalelink=red,black:editnormal=white,black
xterm=
color_terminals=

rxvt-unicode=

screen=

After I delete the ~/.config/mc/ folder, mc re-creates it and starts successfully. Looks like the problem is solved. Thank you.

[andrew_b]

Thanks, you found a bug in color string parser. This bug was introduced in 265-colors support.

[andrew_b]

(In #2169) Fixed color string parser: changeset:6d9965b244615e16071ba2af5f2fd0e15798a018.

[egmont]

Oops, sorry, my bad. Thanks andrew_b for the fix!

[slavazanko]

(In #2169) merge changeset:6ab2753063c3f538fd6a545681873445ea10156f

[code]
git log --pretty=oneline 1b99570..0f2578d
code