GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 116893
mysterious segfaults from various gtk2 applications while idle; appears to be threading related
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: gnomemeeting Severity: major Version: 0.96.0 Synopsis: segfault in gnome meeting while idle Bugzilla-Product: gnomemeeting Bugzilla-Component: general BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.2.0.1) Description: Description of Problem: without provocation, gnome meeting crashed. I was doing other things on the workstation when the dialog box appeared. I do not have video or microphone hardware installed, however that is configured. I am using Red Hat Linux 9 after an upgrade from Pink Tie Linux 8.0. as far as I know, I have configured everything properly. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: How often does this happen? needs additional testing Additional Information: I will be willing to provide further information regarding my setup, however I would like to contact someone in such a way that I can encrypt the files for trasmission over the network, and I would like it if my sensitive information could be protected from the general public. this is so that I don't need to doctor logs, and I can feel free to give you *everything*. Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnomemeeting' (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 1099900384 (LWP 2149)] [New Thread 1142127920 (LWP 2165)] [New Thread 1133735216 (LWP 2162)] [New Thread 1125342512 (LWP 2161)] [New Thread 1116949808 (LWP 2160)] 0xffffe002 in ?? ()
+ Trace 38485
Thread 1 (Thread 1099900384 (LWP 2149))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-07-07 11:35 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnomemeeting-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
I believe this is a duplicate of bug 107007, which is a "random" gtk crash. Since you're using RedHat 9, can you please install http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/tmp/gtk2-debuginfo-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm and if the problem occurs again, submit the backtrace you get. Installing the debuginfo package will make the backtrace much more useful and will help the developers track down the real problem (There is a similar random gdk crash in bug 105745 that the developers were only able to solve after someone sent in a stack trace with debugging symbols several months after people started seeing crashes). Note that we are interested in the backtrace regardless of the application--the other people in bug 107007 received crashes in nautilus, gnome-terminal, and gnome-panel. So it could be just about any application. I'm marking as needinfo for now.
this bug has been updated to track problems that I am having with various gtk2 based tools. the stack trace already attached to this bug shows that gnome meeting crashed, and in addition that threading was somehow involved. at this point I suspect a problem in one of the other layers, not gnomemeeting itself. I have added keyword 'bugbuddy' to this bug so it will show up immediately in a list should there be any other crashes. I need some assistance in determining the right component to file this bug for so that it will be noticed by other people having this problem.
I'm pretty sure that this is a duplicate of bug 107007 (it's just that I've had a pretty bad record at correctly identifying gtk+ duplicates, so I tend to not mark them unless they're identical). So I'm going to reopen so that I can reassign this bug to the gtk maintainers so they can decide for sure. Also, since many more duplicates are in bug 107007, it (and perhaps bug 105745 as well) should have the bugbuddy keyword, not this bug. I'll set priority and severity appropriately and set the GNOMEVER2.2 and bugsquad keywords. Finally, did you install the debuginfo package, Jeff? A stack trace with debugging symbols would be really nice...
...and now I'm reassign to gtk maintainers so they can determine if this is a dup of bug 107007 and what to do with it.
Duping. I'm actually pretty sure 107007 is itself a duplicate of something I've investigated elsewhere, but couldn't find it in a quick look. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107007 ***
hi, no, I haven't installed the debuginfo package.. is it officially distributed by redhat, or do I have to check other sources? I'd rather install an rpm than have to rebuild all of GNOME :) I'll do some checking real quick to be sure... regards, J
The link to the debuginfo package was pasted by Elijah above: http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/tmp/gtk2-debuginfo-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm While we dont' have a formalized mechanism for distributing these packages, they are built along with the binary packages.