[Gretl-users] crash after RESET test in GUI

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, rwarekw at poczta.onet.pl wrote:

> I have just installed gretl 1.6.5 on my Ubuntu 6.12 (previously 
> 1.5 and windows versions) and it seems to be working ok but the 
> RESET test in GUI. After estimation in console i can use RESET, 
> but when estimating a model in GUI and clicking RESET it 
> crashes. That's the message:
> 
> -cit-
> arkadiusz at ubu:~$ gretl
> old read_rc
> setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "pl_PL.UTF-8") returned pl_PL.UTF-8
> get_gretl_charset gave (null)
> 
> Wczytano plik danych /media/hda1/Documents and Settings/Arkadiusz/Moje dokumenty/gretl/stac1.gdt
> okresowo??: 4, maksymalna liczba obserwacji: 204,
> zakres obserwacji: 1950:1-2000:4
> 
> *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/gretl_x11 terminated

Are you installing from the rpm on the gretl site, or building 
from source?  I think this is fixed in CVS, but I'd like to be 
able to test that.  (If I run current gretl in Polish on my 
machine and do a RESET test I'm not hitting this problem.)

Allin Cottrell