Bug 309908 – gnome-about hits 70% CPU then crashes

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Bug 309908 - gnome-about hits 70% CPU then crashes


Summary:	gnome-about hits 70% CPU then crashes


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311299

Product:	gnome-desktop
Classification:	Core
Component:	gnome-about
Version:	2.11.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Desktop Maintainers
QA Contact:	Desktop Maintainers

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2005-07-09 17:13 UTC by David Nielsen
Modified:	2005-07-29 11:54 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.11/2.12

Description David Nielsen 2005-07-09 17:13:09 UTC

Steps to reproduce:
1. start gnome-about
2. let it run till the animated Brought to you by: stuff starts
3. watch in amazement as it bits the dust


Stack trace:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1209083456 (LWP 3906)]
0x006b48c7 in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) thread apply all bt

+ Trace 61635

Thread 1 (Thread -1209083456 (LWP 3906))

#0 memset
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 gray_raster_render
from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#2 ps_hints_apply
from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#3 gray_raster_render
from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#4 FT_Outline_Render
from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#5 FT_Outline_Get_Bitmap
from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#6 cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.1
#7 cairo_scaled_font_glyph_extents
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.1
#8 _cairo_arc_path_negative
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.1
#9 cairo_ft_scaled_font_unlock_face
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.1
#10 cairo_scaled_font_create
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.1
#11 cairo_scaled_font_glyph_extents
from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.1
#12 pango_cairo_fc_font_get_type
from /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
#13 pango_font_get_glyph_extents
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#14 ??
from /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
#15 ??
from /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
#16 _pango_engine_shape_shape
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#17 pango_shape
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#18 pango_layout_set_width
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#19 pango_layout_iter_get_char_extents
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#20 pango_layout_iter_get_char_extents
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#21 pango_layout_iter_get_char_extents
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#22 pango_layout_get_pixel_size
from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
#23 gnome_canvas_text_get_type
from /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#24 g_object_set_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#25 gnome_canvas_item_set_valist
from /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#26 gnome_canvas_item_set
from /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0
#27 display_contributors
at gnome-about.c line 203
#28 animate_contributor
at gnome-about.c line 119
#29 g_main_context_wakeup
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#30 g_main_context_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#31 g_main_context_check
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#32 g_main_loop_run
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#33 gtk_main
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#34 main
at gnome-about.c line 1229



Other information:
System running Fedora Development as of 9th of July

Comment 1 Teppo Turtiainen 2005-07-10 09:46:58 UTC

Unique stack trace.

Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2005-07-29 11:54:52 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311299 ***