Many thanks James, that did the trick. I had an
earlier problem where I was anchoring the target file
incorrectly, so I corrected both source and target
file paths. Alas, my source /sandbox/uploadthis.txt
path was not valid. Changing it to
/root/sandbox/uploadthis.txt worked.

-Ed.

--- James Dennett <jdennett_at_technocom-wireless.com>
wrote:

> Ed Waldner wrote:
> > I'm not very proficient with gdb. Here's the run
> > display and backtrace from within gdb. Can you
> help
> > interpret it?
> >
> > -Ed.
> >
> [snip]
>
> >> STOR while-uploading.txt
> >>
> > < 150 Accepted data connection
> >
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation
> fault.
> > 0x400d2dfc in fread () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 0x400d2dfc in fread () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #1 0x4003a734 in Curl_fillreadbuffer
> (conn=0x19680,
> > bytes=Variable "bytes" is not available.
> > ) at transfer.c:137
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x2
> >
> Looks like fread is being passed a NULL filehandle
> -- maybe the file to
> upload
> wasn't passed to libcurl, wasn't specified correctly
> (e.g., the working
> directory
> isn't what was expected, though you appear to have
> checked that), or
> couldn't
> be opened because of permission limitations?
>
> -- James
>
>
Received on 2006-05-30