hmerijn brand ktnrvaexs4allnl big application reduced test case maybe even shorter 8 testpl probinperl use strict use warnings use tk use cwd use archivetar mw mainwindownew mwlabel text test mw tar 0 tl mwtoplevel tlcheckbutton text create variable tarpack tlbutton text exit command sub exit pack tlbutton text go command sub pwd getcwd tar tar archivetarnew foreach f etcmotd etchosts dir file f chdir dir die chdir dir n tar taradd_files file tar tarwrite tmptesttgz 9 chdir pwd tldestroy pack mainloop 8 goes well untill check checkbutton click go leave applic get segmentation fault testtgz created correct core dump created write rights gdb run testpl starting program probinperl testpl thread debugging using libthread_db enabled new thread 47147403370544 lwp 28717 error reading shared library symbols find new threads generic error program received signal sigsegv segmentation fault switching thread 47147403370544 lwp 28717 0x00002ae15c0de220 strcmp lib64libcso6 gdb hmerijn brand amsterdam perl mongers httpamsterdampmorg using porting perl 562 58x 510x hpux 1020 1100 1111 1123 suse 101 102 aix 52 cygwin httpqaperlorg httpmirrorsdeveloopercomhpux httpwwwtestsmokeorg httpwwwgoldmarkorgjeffstupiddisclaimers wed 06 aug 2008 234049 0000 archivetar tk dont play nice together