GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136639
gnumeric (gnumeric2-1.1.20-36 of SuSE 9.0) crashes when clicking column heading
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: Gnumeric Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.2.2 1.1.20 os_details: GNOME.Org Synopsis: gnumeric (gnumeric2-1.1.20-36 of SuSE 9.0) crashes when clicking column heading Bugzilla-Product: Gnumeric Bugzilla-Component: GUI BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.2.2) Description: Description of Problem: When starting gnumeric, it crashes every time when I click on a column heading Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. start gnumeric (empty page) 2. click on column A Actual Results: gnumeric crashes Expected Results: gnumeric should not crash How often does this happen? every time Additional Information: I had reported the bug to SuSE also (bug id 32861). They think the problem is caused by some bad theme (their default theme). In my opinion no theme should be able to crash the application. Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome/bin/gnumeric' (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 16384 (LWP 28185)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...0x40eeffd6 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
+ Trace 44943
Thread 1 (Thread 16384 (LWP 28185))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-03-09 09:22 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, jody@gnome.org.
It is not the application that crashes but the theme rendering.
Thanks for letting us know which theme is involved. We've had enough reports of this that if I could replicate it I'd try to fix the theme. Unfortunately therre is nothing we can do in the application. This is no different than a bug in libc from our perspective. We make a valid call and the theme under us crashes. For now the only solution is "don't use a broken theme" Give us more information and we may be able to help the theme authors fix their problem.
For reference, I am using Gnumeric 1.2.5 from www.usr-local-bin.org and see no such problems with SuSE 9.0.
Confirmed crash with gnome2-SuSE-0.1-295 and gnumeric2-1.2.1-29 from supplementary update. Theme is 6nome.
See bug 112066 -- I think this is the cause of the crash. A link to whereever you filed with suse would be helpful.
While the theme is the problem, a workaround was easy (and otherwise desireable) so that has been committed to cvs head. Keeping open for 1.2 series.
Backported. 1.2.7 will have the fix.
I was using theme gnome2-SuSE-0.1-216 of SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional.