Bug 61679 – Balsa crashes when spelling is checked

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Bug 61679 - Balsa crashes when spelling is checked


Summary:	Balsa crashes when spelling is checked


Status:	VERIFIED NOTGNOME

Product:	balsa
Classification:	Other
Component:	general
Version:	1.2.x
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Balsa Maintainers
QA Contact:	Balsa Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	61709 70328 79525 80964 81110 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2001-10-03 17:31 UTC by ekmichae
Modified:	2009-08-15 18:40 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	---

Attachments
Workaround: pspell patch (402 bytes, patch) 2002-01-10 20:26 UTC, Toralf Lund	none	Details \| Review

Description ekmichae 2001-10-03 17:31:09 UTC

Package: balsa
Severity: normal
Version: 1.2.0
Synopsis: Balsa crashes when spelling is checked
Bugzilla-Product: balsa
Bugzilla-Component: general

Description:
When trying to check spelling in Balsa, application crashes and kills itself. It happens every time, so it's easy to replicate the error.



Debugging Information:

(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 1181)]
[New Thread 2049 (LWP 1182)]
0x4074c289 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6

+ Trace 11071

#0 wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3 gnome_segv_handle
from /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomeui.so.32
#4 pthread_sighandler
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 ??
#7 <signal handler called>
#8 select
from /lib/libc.so.6
#9 __DTOR_END__
from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#10 _XRead
from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#11 _XReply
from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#12 XGetSelectionOwner
from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#13 gdk_selection_owner_get
from /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0
#14 gtk_editable_claim_selection
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#15 gtk_editable_select_region
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#16 gtk_text_set_position
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#17 gtk_editable_set_position
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#18 balsa_spell_check_finish
#19 balsa_spell_check_start
#20 gtk_marshal_NONE__NONE
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#21 gtk_handlers_run
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#22 gtk_signal_real_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#23 gtk_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#24 gtk_button_clicked
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#25 gtk_real_button_released
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#26 gtk_marshal_NONE__NONE
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#27 gtk_signal_real_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#28 gtk_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#29 gtk_button_released
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#30 gtk_button_button_release
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#31 gtk_marshal_BOOL__POINTER
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#32 gtk_signal_real_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#33 gtk_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#34 gtk_widget_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#35 gtk_propagate_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#36 gtk_main_do_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#37 gdk_event_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0
#38 g_main_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#39 g_main_iterate
from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#40 g_main_run
from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#41 gtk_main
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#42 main
#43 __libc_start_main
from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3 gnome_segv_handle
from /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomeui.so.32
#4 pthread_sighandler
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 ??
#7 <signal handler called>





------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-10-03 13:31 -------

The original reporter (ekmichae@emo-res.campus) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, pawsa@theochem.kth.se.

Comment 1 Pawel Salek 2001-10-04 09:40:58 UTC

*** Bug 61709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Toralf Lund 2001-10-04 09:47:40 UTC

It's quite hard to find a sure way of reproducing this problem, but it
seems most likely to happen when I ignore a number of words reported
as misspelled, then change the last one, i.e. there may be a problem
with change, then finish.

But really, I'm fairly confident that I could find out what exactly
causes the crash if you could only get a plain, old core dump instead
of all this bug reporting nonsense. Is there a simple way to disable
the GNOME segv handler? (Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm
still fairly new to GNOME development.)

Comment 3 Pawel Salek 2001-10-04 09:53:33 UTC

I think --disable-crash-dialog is what you are looking for.

Comment 4 Toralf Lund 2001-10-08 09:31:18 UTC

Ah. I knew about that, really, only it had escaped my mind at the time...

Anyhow, when testing with today's CVS version, I'm unable to reproduce
the seg. fault, but I frequently get:

balsa: manager_impl.cc:30: void free_lt_handle (void *): Assertion `s
== 0' failed.
Abort

Comment 5 Toralf Lund 2002-01-10 20:26:59 UTC

Created attachment 6370 [details] [review]
Workaround: pspell patch

Comment 6 Toralf Lund 2002-01-10 20:30:56 UTC

I've now changed pspell as indicated in the attached patch to make
everything a bit more stable. I haven't yet been able to produce an
useful error message so that I might figure out what is going on,
though...

The patch is applicable to pspell-.12.2.tar.gz as distributed with Red
Hat 7.2 source RPM.

Comment 7 Pawel Salek 2002-05-08 07:36:13 UTC

1. Is this patch in pspell?
2. This crash was independent, got fixed on 2002-04-14.

Comment 8 Pawel Salek 2002-05-08 07:37:51 UTC

*** Bug 70328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Pawel Salek 2002-05-08 07:39:39 UTC

*** Bug 80964 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Pawel Salek 2002-05-08 07:40:53 UTC

*** Bug 81110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Toralf Lund 2002-05-08 12:57:48 UTC

The patch has not been submitted anywhere else. I was not quite sure
what to do with it, as the crash is really more of a feature than a
bug - pspell aborts via assert() because the application did something
wrong. I think this is a bad way to handle errors, though - library
functions should not contain arbitrary exit()s and abort()s, IMO.

Comment 12 Ben FrantzDale 2002-08-02 21:51:02 UTC

*** Bug 79525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Pawel Salek 2002-12-22 18:27:37 UTC

Balsa-1.4.2 released: http://balsa.gnome.org/