Without having seen the code, is this first time you are assigning a value to *S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR*? const QString Plugin::S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR = ";;"; *S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR *is defined as being *const*, so that might be some trouble... Can you attach your source? What version of GCC are you using? -> Jake On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Dan Armbrust < daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote: > So, I'm not a C++ developer. At all. > > But I got annoyed that the latest ubuntu "upgrade" broke KRename. > > It just segfaults. > > So, I'm stumbling around. > > Got a backtrace: > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > QBasicAtomicInt::ref (this=0x0) at > /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qatomic_x86_64.h:121 > 121 : "memory"); > (gdb) backtrace > #0 QBasicAtomicInt::ref (this=0x0) at > /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qatomic_x86_64.h:121 > #1 0x0000000000463c43 in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0 > (__priority=65535, __initialize_p=1) > at /home/Desktop/krename-4.0.7/src/plugin.cpp:22 > #2 0x000000000048087d in __libc_csu_init () > #3 0x00007ffff488c2a0 in __libc_start_main (main=0x41bcd0 <main(int, > char**)>, argc=1, ubp_av=0x7fffffffe108, > init=0x480820 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=<optimized out>, > rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe0f8) > at libc-start.c:185 > #4 0x000000000041e491 in _start () > > > The line of code at plugin.cpp:22 is: > > const QString Plugin::S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR = > TokenHelpDialog::S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR; > > TokenHelpDialog::S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR is defined as: > > const QString TokenHelpDialog::S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR = ";;"; > > in tokenHelpDialog.cpp > > If I modify the line where the segfault occurs to : > > const QString Plugin::S_TOKEN_SEPARATOR = ";;"; > > And compile it, it runs with out a segfault. > > What obvious thing am I missing about how C++ works? > > Thanks, > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111230/88450b88/attachment.html>