Re: guile-gnome0 - unexplained GTK crashes since +- 10 days

[John Steele Scott]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:49:16 +0100, David Pirotte wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> we have been using the following guile-gnome debian packages for quite a
> long time now:
> 
>       ii  guile-gnome0-canvas                  2.7.99-4 ii  guile-gnome0-dev  
>  
>                        2.7.99-4 ii  guile-gnome0-gconf                  
>       2.7.99-4 ii  guile-gnome0-glib                    2.7.99-4 ii 
>       guile-gnome0-gnome                   2.7.99-4 ii  guile-gnome0-gnome-ui 
>  
>                    2.7.99-4 ii  guile-gnome0-gtk                     2.7.99-4
>       ii  guile-gnome0-vfs                     2.7.99-4
> 
> since a few days, we are having random, unexplained crashes in GTK, used
> from guile, with the following outputs:
> 
>       In expression (g-main-loop-run (g-main-loop-new)): GLib-GObject:
>       g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> 
>       or
> 
>       In expression (g-main-loop-run (g-main-loop-new)): GLib-GObject:
>       gsignal.c:2133: signal id `32' is invalid for instance `0xa21a820'
> 
> Any idea of what we could do to track that down?

Have you installed guile-1.8 recently? When I did that on my Ubuntu
system, guile-gnome broke. I can't remember if this was the error though.

The fix was to edit /usr/bin/guile-gnome-0 and replace the two instances
of "exec guile" with "exec guile-1.6".

Just a thought.

cheers,

John