On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:21:52PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 05:26:47PM +0200, Christophe Mouilleron wrote: > > > > Here is what bt in gdb gives for vim (it is very similar for xpdf.bin) : > > [...] > > #11 0xb7fdd7de in XtAppNextEvent () from /usr/lib/scrotwm/libswmhack.so.0.0 > > #12 0xb7fdd782 in XtAppNextEvent () from /usr/lib/scrotwm/libswmhack.so.0.0 > > #13 0xb7fdd782 in XtAppNextEvent () from /usr/lib/scrotwm/libswmhack.so.0.0 > > #14 0xb7fdd782 in XtAppNextEvent () from /usr/lib/scrotwm/libswmhack.so.0.0 > > > > Does core files generated by generate-core-file in gdb after the segfault > > would be useful ? > > I've experienced a couple similar segfaults with xpdf, but it doesn't > happen consistently. My crashes can be traced back to XtAppNextEvent as > well. There obviously is something wrong with that function. > I also noticed a couple of (non-reproducible) crashes with xpdf on my box with sid, but I thought it was due to xpdf itself. As it rarely happens, I haven't look at this, but maybe it is linked to the problem mentioned above after all.
> I assume vim crashes every single time you run it with LD_PRELOAD set, > right? Right. Vim crashes every time I tried to run it in a terminal (aterm, xterm, urxvt) with LD_PRELOAD set. > If that is the case, I can prepare a .deb with a patched libswmhack > for you to test. We could start removing the function altogether, if > that works we can try to find out exactly what's wrong in that function. Okay. Tell me when it is ready and I'll test it. Thank you for your attention. Christophe Mouilleron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
