Crash/Error on bsd

[almostalive]

This is the error I'm getting on PC-BSD 10.0 (FreeBSD).
RetroArch [ERROR] :: Assertion failed at file_path.c:673.

RetroArch RGUI runs fine up until I select a game. After I click on whatever I want in Load Content (core name) screen. It Crashes. The same thing happens if I try entering everything in cli. and that error above is the last thing mentioned in the terminal.

I've ran retroarch before in the past on pc-bsd 9.2 like 6 months ago or so. So I'm not sure if it is something that changed in FreeBSD 9 to 10 or something that changed in retroarch during that time.

[Themaister]

That assertion failing makes no sense. What is PATH_MAX defined to on PC-BSD? Do you have a backtrace?

[almostalive]

I don't know how to find that. But a quick search on google i found this which might be relevant http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2013-November/054530.html

gdb shows me nothing. it just says Program exited with code 02. and bt says No stack.

[almostalive]

grep PATH_MAX /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h
#define PATH_MAX 1024 /* max bytes in pathname */
is this what you were needing?

[Themaister]

I've pushed a commit which should give you a SIGABRT when the assertion fails. You should be able to generate a backtrace then.

[almostalive]

thanks maister. got a backtrace now.

this first one is launching a core and game through command line.
#0 0x000000080290726a in thr_kill () from /lib/libc.so.7
#1 0x00000008029ceac9 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7
#2 0x0000000000417f3c in path_resolve_realpath (buf=0x6e866c "gambatte_libretro.so", size=1024) at file_path.c:673
#3 0x000000000042277b in load_symbols (is_dummy=false) at dynamic.c:297
#4 0x00000000004222c8 in init_libretro_sym (dummy=false) at dynamic.c:400
#5 0x000000000040da9a in rarch_main_init (argc=5, argv=0x7fffffffd7c0) at retroarch.c:2997
#6 0x00000000004096ba in main (argc=5, argv=0x7fffffffd7c0) at frontend/frontend.c:336

this second one is through rgui
#0 0x000000080290726a in thr_kill () from /lib/libc.so.7
#1 0x00000008029ceac9 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7
#2 0x0000000000417f3c in path_resolve_realpath (buf=0x6e866c "/home/carl/libretro-super/retroarch/gambatte_libretro.so", size=1024) at file_path.c:673
#3 0x000000000042277b in load_symbols (is_dummy=false) at dynamic.c:297
#4 0x00000000004222c8 in init_libretro_sym (dummy=false) at dynamic.c:400
#5 0x000000000040da9a in rarch_main_init (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffcd40) at retroarch.c:2997
#6 0x000000000041190b in rarch_main_init_wrap (args=0x7fffffffd6b8) at retroarch.c:3357
#7 0x0000000000442a1a in load_menu_game () at frontend/menu/menu_common.c:410
#8 0x0000000000408f0a in main_entry_iterate (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffd7e8, args=0x0) at frontend/frontend.c:160
#9 0x000000000040975a in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffd7e8) at frontend/frontend.c:357

I hope that helps.

[Themaister]

Ok, I see what can go wrong. Try building latest commit and see if it works now.

[almostalive]

Yep that fixed it. Thanks for looking in to it and getting it fixed.