Hi Patrick, On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 10:36 +0000, Patrick Totzke wrote: > I've been complaining about the new (and old) python bindings causing the > python interpreter to segfault occasionally. So far I was not able to > reproduce this reliably nor provide error traces. This has just changed: > see below and attached for what I got from gdb.
Your gdb info doesn't say explicitly (or I missed it), but this is showing a SEGFAULT I guess? > I hope that whoever is in charge of the bindings can make sense of > it. I don't have any experience so far with cffi nor gdb and have a > hard time debugging this. The logs below are my attempt to collect as > much detail as possible about. Please let me know if I missed > something. >From what I can tell we're calling a function to free something which segfaults, so it probably was freed already and we didn't know. We need to find out who freed it before and why we thought it still needed to be freed. > (gdb) info threads > Id Target Id Frame > * 1 Thread 0x7ffff7c0e740 (LWP 3614451) "python3" __GI_raise > (sig=sig@entry=6) > at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:50 >From this I gather we only have one thread, could you confirm this? notmuch2 just isn't thread safe at the moment (I forget whether this was intentional or by accident, might have been intentional depending on how threadsafe libnotmuch is). > Traceback (most recent call first): > <built-in method notmuch_thread_destroy of CompiledLib object at remote > 0x7ffff636f040> > File "/home/pazz/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notmuch2/_thread.py", > line 38, in _destroy > capi.lib.notmuch_thread_destroy(self._thread_p) > File "/home/pazz/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notmuch2/_thread.py", > line 34, in __del__ > self._destroy() > File "/home/pazz/projects/alot/alot/db/manager.py", line 570, in get_threads > <built-in method next of module object at remote 0x7ffff78b70e0> I pulled alot master and this does not match at all. Could you tell me which git ref this was using so I can try and see what alot is actually doing? (or some other way of sharing the source in this backtrace) Cheers, Floris _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
