PCemV12Linux - Award 430VX PCI - Segmentation fault

[mjnman]

I builded from source in Debian Stretch but if I select machine "Award 430VX PCI" or "Intel Advanced EV" with default options obtain an "Segmentation fault" (Pentium configuration). With others "machines" PCem start correctly.
Below the trace with gdb:

# gdb /usr/local/bin/pcem core.pcem.3735
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Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/pcem...done.
[New LWP 3735]
[New LWP 3742]
[New LWP 3743]
[New LWP 3738]
[New LWP 3741]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `pcem'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 __GI__IO_fwrite (buf=buf@entry=0x55ad106664a0 <nvrram>, size=size@entry=128, count=count@entry=1, fp=fp@entry=0x0) at iofwrite.c:37
37 iofwrite.c: No such file or directory.
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7ff104634200 (LWP 3735))]
(gdb) bt
#0 __GI__IO_fwrite (buf=buf@entry=0x55ad106664a0 <nvrram>, size=size@entry=128, count=count@entry=1, fp=fp@entry=0x0) at iofwrite.c:37
#1 0x000055ad0e1bbd97 in savenvr () at nvr.c:292
#2 0x000055ad0e05f8d8 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at allegro-main.c:135

Please, what can I do?

[SarahWalker]

Don't put the binary in /usr/local/bin. PCem, being primarily a Windows program, saves CMOS settings and the like relative to the binary location, and if this is read-only then it won't end well.

There is work ongoing in another thread to make the path handling more Linuxy, but none of that has hit the main repo yet.

[mjnman]

ah ok. Thank you. I executed with root user the binary. I'll look around