Re: [Denemo-devel] Denemo crash

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 20:45 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Am 26.05.2015 um 09:15 schrieb Richard Shann:
> > It would seem that this crash happens when clicking on a menu item 
> > (I say this because I can see
> > 
> > gtk_menu_shell_activate_item ()
> > 
> > in the back trace) before Denemo's close routine gets called.
> > 
> > If I'm right it would be very surprising if clicking on other menu items
> > worked as there is nothing special about the File->Quit or File->Close
> > items. 
> > 
> > Some questions then:
> >     Is the crash reliable?
> >     Can other menu items be invoked successfully?
> >     Does it happen if quit is initiated via a shortcut?
> > 
> > As I may not be able to respond quickly over the next couple of days,
> > I'll mention a further avenue of investigation here:
> >     If a break is set on the close_project() function (by issuing 
> > 
> > gdb> break close_project
> > 
> > at the gdb command prompt) does the program still crash on exit?
> 
> On Monday the crash happened every time, but today we could not
> reproduce it. Thus we could not do the tests you suggested. I do not
> understand that behaviour.

Well, we'll just have to wait and see if it ever turns up again - there
are all sorts of particular circumstances that can do this sort of thing
which do not survive a re-boot of the operating system.
I looked up Debian Jessie and discovered it is the new Debian stable - I
didn't realize that. I'll wait to upgrade until we have the new release
as I don't want to perturb things right now.
Thank you for your feedback.

Richard