arla-0.8: arlad fails with SIGSEGV

[Dr A V Le Blanc]

I see an enormous amount of work has been done cleaning up
arla in this release, and I hoped it would begin to work for me.
Unfortunately I find that arlad fails to run, even 'arlad -t',
which used to work in 0.7.2.

The core dump occurs at line 124 in hash.c, where the program
attempts to use free:

     if (h)
        free((void *) h->ptr);

Here is the gdb output:

gdb arlad
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(gdb) b hash.c:124
Breakpoint 1 at 0x806d4e4: file hash.c, line 124.
(gdb) r -t
Starting program: /usr/contrib/packages/arla/bin/arlad -t

Breakpoint 1, hashtabadd (htab=0x80afca0, ptr=0x80be10c) at hash.c:124
124             free((void *) h->ptr);
(gdb) n

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400cb278 in free ()

Any suggestions?

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc at mcc.ac.uk