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-@node Troubleshooting
-@chapter Troubleshooting
-
-This chapter posts some information about possibly common errors in building
-or running ns-3 programs.
-
-Please note that the wiki (@uref{http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting}) may have contributed items.
-
-@node Build errors
-@section Build errors
-
-@node Run-time errors
-@section Run-time errors
-
-Sometimes, errors can occur with a program after a successful build. These
-are run-time errors, and can commonly occur when memory is corrupted or
-pointer values are unexpectedly null.
-
-Here is an example of what might occur:
-
-@verbatim
-ns-old:~/ns-3-nsc$ ./waf --run tcp-point-to-point
-Entering directory `/home/tomh/ns-3-nsc/build'
-Compilation finished successfully
-Command ['/home/tomh/ns-3-nsc/build/debug/examples/tcp-point-to-point'] exited with code -11
-@end verbatim
-
-The error message says that the program terminated unsuccessfully, but it is
-not clear from this information what might be wrong. To examine more
-closely, try running it under the @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/,,gdb debugger}:
-
-@verbatim
-ns-old:~/ns-3-nsc$ ./waf --run tcp-point-to-point --command-template="gdb %s"
-Entering directory `/home/tomh/ns-3-nsc/build'
-Compilation finished successfully
-GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5rh)
-Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
-welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
-Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
-There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
-This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
-
-(gdb) run
-Starting program: /home/tomh/ns-3-nsc/build/debug/examples/tcp-point-to-point
-Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done.
-Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xf5c000
-
-Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
-0x0804aa12 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfdfefa4)
- at ../examples/tcp-point-to-point.cc:136
-136 Ptr<Socket> localSocket = socketFactory->CreateSocket ();
-(gdb) p localSocket
-$1 = {m_ptr = 0x3c5d65}
-(gdb) p socketFactory
-$2 = {m_ptr = 0x0}
-(gdb) quit
-The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y
-@end verbatim
-
-Note first the way the program was invoked-- pass the command to run as
-an argument to the command template "gdb %s".
-
-This tells us that there was an attempt to dereference a null pointer
-socketFactory.
-
-Let's look around line 136 of tcp-point-to-point, as gdb suggests:
-@verbatim
- Ptr<SocketFactory> socketFactory = n2->GetObject<SocketFactory> (Tcp::iid);
- Ptr<Socket> localSocket = socketFactory->CreateSocket ();
- localSocket->Bind ();
-@end verbatim
-
-The culprit here is that the return value of GetObject is not being
-checked and may be null.
-
-Sometimes you may need to use the @uref{http://valgrind.org,,valgrind memory
-checker} for more subtle errors. Again, you invoke the use of valgrind
-similarly:
-@verbatim
-ns-old:~/ns-3-nsc$ ./waf --run tcp-point-to-point --command-template="valgrind %s"
-@end verbatim