GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324585
Solver dialog crash
Last modified: 2006-01-02 00:54:31 UTC
Distribution: Debian 3.1 Package: bug-buddy Severity: normal Version: 2.8.x Synopsis: gnumeri crased and activated bug buddy Bugzilla-Product: bug-buddy Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: 2.8.x BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.8.1) Description: Description of the crash: bug bbuddy starts. while using gnumeic but won't let me report a bug in gnumeric Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. 2. I was trying to use the solver, I was trying to enter constraints but the add button wouldn't un-shade 3. Expected Results: How often does this happen? once so far Additional Information: using TWM for window manager (no gnome environment) also running mozilla and gtk-gnutella Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnumeric' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) `system-supplied DSO at 0xffffe000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols. (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) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1223112672 (LWP 12523)] (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) (no debugging symbols found) 0xb76ac53e in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
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Thread 1 (Thread -1223112672 (LWP 12523))
------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2005-12-20 08:46 -------
Can you tell us step-by-step how to reproduce the problem? Where did you obtain Gnumeric from? And what version is it?
gnumeric is most recent debian sarge version - from some debian mirror help->about says 1.4.3 jasen@clunker:~$ dpkg -s gnumeric Package: gnumeric Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: math Installed-Size: 10232 Maintainer: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.4.3-4 ... how to replicate, well it took me about half an hour the first time... it seems that all that is needed is to put a constant eg 5 on the right side of a constraint while the left side holds a cell reference and then press enter. yep that's all it takes. tools->solver->constraints left Hand Side: A1 Right Hand Side 5 press enter.
Still happens with the latest and greatest version. Ugh, :-/ You will probably be required to enter a cell name there, but clearly a crash should not happen.
Fixed in cvs HEAD and 1.6 branch. Thanks. Precise observations are very helpful in improving Gnumeric. Fixing a thing like this is fairly trivial once the problem has been identified.