id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	branch_state	votes
2657	SEGV when loading directory hotlist during startup	c0da	slavazanko	"during the startup of mc you can press ctrl+\ for the directory hotlist. when mc is not already 'in memory' eg filecache and not visible yet the application is closed with a SEGV signal.

reproduce:

type mc\n
press ctrl+\

received result:
Segmentation Fault

expected result: 
started with the directory hotlist visible

workarround:
type mc again

so far i was not able to debug this problem because it seems like a race condition (keys are received before curses are loaded) and most of the time mc loads faster than i am able to press 'ctrl+\'. situations when this bug occurs are 
- a fresh reboot
- memory swapped out
- heavy load
- io wait for nfs/sshfs shares

this problem has been persistent in the last years between 4.5 and 4.7, unless the startup sequence is changed it should be persistent in the current versions too


$ mc --version
GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.5.2
Built with GLib 2.28.8
Using the ncurses library
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;
"	defect	accepted	minor	Future Releases	mc-core	master						no branch