[CWB] "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" on various versions

[Stefan Evert]

On 23 Jul 2013, at 05:12, Scott Sadowsky <ssadowsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> [no corpus]> PERS-DIVER-USENET 
> PERS-DIVER-USENET> [word = ".+ai"]
> Segmentation fault (core dumped) 
> 
> [no corpus]> PERS-DIVER-USENET 
> PERS-DIVER-USENET> [word = ".*ai"];
> Segmentation fault (core dumped) 
> 
> [no corpus]> PERS-DIVER-USENET 
> PERS-DIVER-USENET> [word = ".ai"];
> Segmentation fault (core dumped) 
> 
> However, for what it's worth, this does NOT happen in cases such as the following:
> 
> [no corpus]> PERS-DIVER-USENET 
> PERS-DIVER-USENET> [word = "cas(a|o)(s|)"];

This is rather strange.

IIRC, I've recently had some segmentation faults with damaged index files, though it would have to be some word matched by all three patterns (i.e. /.ai/).

Can you try the following on the command-line:

	cwb-lexdecode -f -p '.ai' PERS-DIVER-USENET 

Best,
Stefan