On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:30:49 +0100 Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> said:

> Am 12.12.2010 02:20, schrieb Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman):
> > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:24:48 +0100 Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> said:
> > 
> >> Since irc currently seems a bit silent, let me post the last 2 backtraces
> >> here, so someone can have a look and either fix those issues or point me to
> >> the issue i have on my machine, both backtraces first contain the "bt" and
> >> afterwards a "bt full", both with gdb attached to the crashed/segfaulted e.
> > 
> > unfortunately both traces say "the bug happened somewhere else earlier and
> > memory has been stomped over and is later causing this crash". you'll
> > want/need to run e using valgrind to help spot the original point of error.
> > note - before you do tyhis ensure that you have everything up to date and
> > built in-sync (ie updated to the same svn revision for everything and all
> > rebuilt - gdb debugging on, also you might want to limit optimization to
> > -O, not -O2 or -O3 - no inlining). that may give the actual problem.
> > 
> > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Debugging
> > 
> > for  how to run a 2nd X (or even use Xephyr instead as your 2nd X).
> 
> 
> Valgrind does not help in this case, since i am not able to produce those
> problems with e running inside of valgrind. I can produce it without the
> slowdown of valgrind without problems. So the problem may be a race condition.

if you can't grab the bug earlier with a backtrace from valgrind... then i dont
know how it's going to be found. short of reproducing it under valgrind either
where you are, or some other developer is.

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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