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Bug 406049 - Metacity crashes at startup
Metacity crashes at startup
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-09 10:37 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2009-01-27 23:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-02-09 10:37:48 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/84080

"Binary package hint: metacity

See archive

http://librarian.launchpad.net/6352649/_usr_bin_metacity.1000.crash
Archive"


Debug backtrace from gdb on the crash file:



Debug backtrace for the crash:

2019 else if (env->object_height >= 0 &&
(gdb) bt

+ Trace 109259

  • #0 pos_eval_helper
    at theme.c line 2019
  • #1 pos_eval
    at theme.c line 2167
  • #2 meta_parse_position_expression
    at theme.c line 2221
  • #3 check_expression
    at theme-parser.c line 1590
  • #4 start_element_handler
    at theme-parser.c line 2199
  • #5 IA__g_markup_parse_context_parse
    at gmarkup.c line 1321
  • #6 meta_theme_load
    at theme-parser.c line 4369
  • #7 meta_theme_set_current
    at theme.c line 4371
  • #8 main
    at main.c line 333
  • #9 __libc_start_main
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  • #10 _start 






Comment 1


Thomas Thurman





          2007-02-09 13:14:47 UTC
        



Cheers, I'll look into this tonight.






Comment 2


rsepulvedacl





          2007-03-09 03:40:10 UTC
        



I had another crash...

http://librarian.launchpad.net/6714153/_usr_bin_metacity.1000.crash






Comment 3


Thomas Thurman





          2008-07-19 02:00:58 UTC
        



rsepulvedacl:  Why do you think that crash is related?






Comment 4


Thomas Thurman





          2009-01-27 23:25:45 UTC
        



This is very strange.  The crash apparently happens when the Human theme is parsed.  The Human theme is the default theme on Ubuntu, and as such is loaded thousands and thousands of times a day everywhere in the world.  Yet we only have one report of this crash.  Further, although "else if (env->object_height >= 0 &&" occurs twice in the code, I can't find a version from the time of this crash where it appears anywhere much near line 2019.

Reporter, if you can replicate this with a modern version of Metacity, I'd love to find out what was going on.  For now I doubt we'll get to the bottom of it unless we can replicate.