2010/9/8 Enrico Tröger <[email protected]>

> 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.
>
>
Thanks all. Will run it via gdb for a while and see how it goes.

Cheers
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