Subj : event thread chucked up a core dump
To   : GitLab note in main/sbbs
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Oct 04 2025 14:19:12

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/981#note_7698

Appreciate the backtrace.

Does your `ctrl/time.ini` file appear to be corrupted?

Is this reproducible (e.g. still happening)?

As for the crash, some NULL pointers appear in that backtrace that shouldn't be there (e.g. the `key` argument to `iniReadDateTime()` is `0x0`) which suggests either the `scfg_t` (stored in the heap) was corrupted, or the stack got corrupted during these calls to ini_file.c functions while parsing `time.ini`.

Since the scfg_t element that's used for key argument isn't a pointer in the first place (it's an array of char), I can't really imagine how it'd be set to NULL even through corruption. So that kind of points to stack corruption (e.g. in functions within ini_file.c).
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