Reporter: RobertJ
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 8.05pm, Tuesday, 24th March 2009]

the current binary compiled from svn crashes at startup:

% gdb binaries/bin/merkaartor
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/rj/sw/merkaartor-SVN/binaries/bin/merkaartor
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb6223700 (LWP 23989)]
Unable to set projection : "
ASSERT: "false" in file Map/Projection.cpp, line 49

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 0xb6223700 (LWP 23989)]
0xffffe424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xffffe424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb66e0640 in raise () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0xb66e2008 in abort () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3 0xb699f6cd in qt_message_output () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#4 0xb699f796 in qFatal () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#5 0xb699f825 in qt_assert () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#6 0x080d9246 in Projection (this=0x8baba4c) at Map/Projection.cpp:49
#7 0x08172cb9 in MapView (this=0x8baba30, aMain=0xbf976c7c) at MapView.cpp:37
#8 0x081db248 in MainWindow (this=0xbf976c7c) at MainWindow.cpp:150
#9 0x081c591e in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x5db5
) at Main.cpp:59
(gdb)

with debian sid, qmake options used are GPSD=1 OSMARENDER=1 NODEBUG=0.
the 0.13rc5 binaries/debug/bin/merkaartor i kept from about 12 days ago still works.