Re: guile-gnome crash; help?

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Steve,

On Sun 23 Sep 2007 00:31, steve tell <address@hidden> writes:

> Any hints on debugging a coredump that appears to be related to memory
> corruption in a program using guile-gnome-platform?

Looks painful!


> I am getting a coredump nearly any time I open (some times not until I
> close) the file selector.  The top of the traceback clearly shows an
> abort in free().  This particular dump came as the guile code was
> opening a new gtk+ window after hitting OK in the file selector.  It
> isn't quite predictable; sometimes the crash happens when openign the
> file selector.

Perhaps the dump-or-not behavior is related to the new slice allocator
in GLib; try running with G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly for
more normal behavior.

Keep us informed,

Andy.
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