Bug 340365 – F1 on Buffers Dialog causes gimp to crash

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Bug 340365 - F1 on Buffers Dialog causes gimp to crash


Summary:	F1 on Buffers Dialog causes gimp to crash


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	GIMP
Classification:	Other
Component:	General
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	2.4
Assigned To:	GIMP Bugs
QA Contact:	GIMP Bugs

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Reported:	2006-05-02 03:41 UTC by Carol
Modified:	2006-05-03 14:15 UTC

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Description Carol 2006-05-02 03:41:07 UTC

I have installed gimp-help-common from Debian unstable.

In the preferences, I have told GIMP to use the web browser to display the help documentation and I have shown it the path to my web browser binary.

When I open File/Dialogs/Buffers and press F1 while the mouse is hovering over any part of the dialog face, GIMP crashed.

Then I ran "gdb --args gimp-2.3 --g-fatal-warnings" and GIMP crashed while loading the helpbrowser plug-in:

+ Trace 67966

#0 raise
from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1 abort
from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2 g_logv
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3 g_log
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 gimp_wire_read
at gimpwire.c line 139
#5 _gimp_wire_read_int8
at gimpwire.c line 357
#6 _gimp_wire_read_int32
at gimpwire.c line 311
#7 gimp_wire_read_msg
at gimpwire.c line 255
#8 plug_in_call_query
at plug-in.c line 171
#9 gimp_plug_in_manager_restore
at gimppluginmanager.c line 365
#10 gimp_real_restore
at gimp.c line 583
#11 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__POINTER
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 g_cclosure_new_swap
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 g_signal_stop_emission
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 gimp_restore
at gimp.c line 822
#18 app_run
at app_procs.c line 268
#19 main
at main.c line 316

Comment 1 Carol 2006-05-02 04:08:47 UTC

After looking at ./autogen.sh --help, I reran it: ./autogen.sh  --with-html-dir=/usr/share/doc/gimp-help-en/html/

The configuration report is telling me this:

Optional Plug-Ins:
  Help Browser:     no (GtkHtml2 not found)

So, I started to think that maybe some other time and some other version of GIMP I might have built gimp with the help browser.  And there it was:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146887 2005-10-01 08:39 /usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/helpbrowser

The dark side of backwards compatiblity....

What would be nice is if it could be handled so that it will not crash if things with the plug-in do not go as expected.

I am uncertain if this bug report should be closed with a reprimand to the filer or fixed or refiled with a different summary.

Comment 2 Sven Neumann 2006-05-02 07:21:06 UTC

GIMP must of course not crash, no matter what goes wrong with the plug-in. And the help-browser plug-in from GIMP 2.2 should also work with GIMP 2.3.

Comment 3 Carol 2006-05-02 07:25:14 UTC

gtkhtml2 is not installed.

It is very unusual circumstances.

Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2006-05-03 14:15:18 UTC

2006-05-03  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>

	* app/core/gimpparamspecs.c (gimp_string_array_new,
	gimp_param_string_array_validate): relaxed the checks so that
	GimpStringArray deals correctly with (length == 0 && data != NULL).
	Fixes bug #340365.