Re: [Denemo-devel] Denemo Debian build

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 17:28 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Am 11.07.2015 um 12:38 schrieb Richard Shann:
> > *Please* could anyone with the latest Debian 64 test this out as we are
> > close to declaring a release.
> 
> Some occasional crashes occurred when resizing the Denemo print preview.
> I remember there was a discussion about such crashes 

The discussion was over crashes that affected non X11 backends - this
re-sizing crash is one I've seen on the Print Preview and the Scheme
windows for a year or so now. I haven't seen it recently, and I can't
provoke it by rapidly dragging the window corner continuously for a
minute or two. It may not occur once a drag has successfully started of
course, in which case it is rather difficult to test, since at least on
my machine actually "hooking" the corner to drag is quite tricky.

Disappointing that it is still around - but not *too* surprising. I
don't recall what the back trace in gdb is when this happens. I'll look
if it ever happens to me again. (I think it must be a thread thing
though, else I would have been able to do something).

Incidentally if you are seeing it more often, perhaps you could do as I
do and make a habit of starting Denemo up under gdb (that is
gdb denemo
...
gdb> run
)
That way if you get the crash you can get a clue to what the problem is
using the where or bt commands.

Richard


> one or two months
> ago. Richard had found some threading issues (his mail from 30th May).
> However it seems this issue is still not completely solved. Debian uses
> the X11 backend of GTK as far as I know.
> 
> Andreas