On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:22:40 +1000, Lex wrote: >On 8 September 2010 01:30, Ronan Chilvers <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4 September 2010 19:54, Bob Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I have had Geany lock up solid a few times in Windows. This seems to >>> happen when I am trying to adjust the size of the Message Window or >>> the Sidebar. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be reproducible. >>> When it happens Geany's CPU usage goes to 100% and it is completely >>> unresponsive and will not repaint its window. >>> >>> I suppose this could just as likely be a problem with the GTK port >>> to Windows as with Geany, but I wondered if it has ever been seen >>> before. More importantly, when it happens, is there any way to >>> recover the changes I have made since the last save? >> >> I have this happen very occasionally on my Ubuntu machine. Currently >> using 0.20 r5714 (has happened with previous versions). Geany >> essentially freezes completely although I don't see the high CPU >> usage. It doesn't recover. I end up having to kill it from a >> terminal. Fire it up again and it all works fine. >> I wonder if this points to a GTK problem rather than Geany problem? > >Possibly, or part of Geany or a plugin isn't properly reentrant. I >guess you can't give a definite repeatable way of causing it, but in >general what are you doing when it happens, what plugins are you >using, how many files, what filesystems, ie all local files or some >remote ones? > > I guess >> I could run in a gdb session or something to see if I can catch it?
In case you ask how to: run Geany in gdb as usual: gdb geany [...] (gdb) run [...] And once it freezes, change back to the gdb prompt, hit Ctrl-C and type 'backtrace'. The result should help to track this down, hopefully. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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