[SDL] Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

[clemens kirchgatterer]

On 2/21/07, benang at cs.its.ac.id <benang at cs.its.ac.id> wrote:
> Hi, recently my application encountered an unusual bug. The bug seemed
> random so I can't recreate it (only if I was lucky enough). The bug
> appears every now and then when I clicked the mouse. It displayed :
> "Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)".
>
> The application itself was initiated inside of .xinitrc because I wanted
> it to be started automatically everytime I logged in. So after the error
> appears, I opened an xterm console and restarted the application. And the
> problem didn't appear (yet!).
>
> The question is:
> 1. What caused the SDL Parachute error?
> 2. Why was it appear random ?
>
> Can anybody help me? Many-many thanks in advance.

you have a memory corruption bug in your program. SDL caches the
segfault signal and tells with the error message. use a debugger and
valgrind to correct your program.

best regards ...
clemens