Segfault at startup due to FFI

I have an image that is segfaulting at startup due to a process
that is using Smallapack, which uses FFI. The process is not
critical, so I would like to start the vm, then terminate the
offending process before it gets to run. My image would probably
work fine then.

I think the process is crashing because it is invoking Morphic,
getting nil or something weird since Morphic is not yet
initialized, then sending crap at FFI, and segfaulting.

How can I do that, or can I do it at all?

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Try removing the FFI plugin from the search path of the VM (unless it's
builtin then you are stuck here). This will cause all FFI calls to fail
immediately and (hopefully) prevent the crash.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Matthew Fulmer wrote:

On 27-Jan-07, at 6:19 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Try removing the FFI plugin from the search path of the VM (unless  
> it's builtin then you are stuck here).

Not quite; if someone can make a plugin that does nothing except  
*pretend* to be the FFIPlugin then he can put it in a suitable place  
and it should override the internal copy.


tim
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