I'm digging into this further. I upgraded to Python 2.3 and pyorbit 1.99.6-4, as packaged by Debian unstable. The test script I posted the other day now segfaults in registerGlobalEventListener.
Here's the backtrace: #0 0x080785d0 in PyObject_SetAttrString () #1 0x402f3ec8 in demarshal_value (tc=0x40332320, val=0xbffff550) at pycorba-marshal.c:482 #2 0x402f46b3 in pyorbit_demarshal_any (any=0xbffff590) at pycorba-marshal.c:676 #3 0x402f4f88 in pyorbit_check_ex (ev=0xbffff660) at pycorba-exceptions.c:39 #4 0x402f1bbe in pycorba_method_call (self=0x40383310, args=0x40389b94, kwargs=0x0) at pycorba-method.c:164 #5 0x402f262a in pycorba_bound_method_call (self=0x40383730, args=0x40389b94, kwargs=0x0) at pycorba-method.c:454 #6 0x0805b060 in PyObject_Call () #7 0x080a3f00 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords () #8 0x080a3bbf in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords () #9 0x080a2250 in Py_MakePendingCalls () #10 0x00000002 in ?? () #11 0xbffff7f8 in ?? () #12 0x080a14a8 in Py_MakePendingCalls () Line 482 in pycorba-marshal.c calls PyObject_SetAttrString with a NULL instance. The instance was created on line 465 by a call to PyObject_CallFunction, which returns NULL. Going up the stack, demarshal_value is called by pyorbit_demarshal_any with the first parameter a CORBA_TypeCode of NO_IMPLEMENT. I think this is the same problem I was seeing before, only the CORBA exception now causes a crash instead of being propagated as a Python exception as it did in my previous post (which was from a system that is still running Python 2.2.3 and PyORBit 1.99.6-3, and presumably an earlier version of Bonobo/ORBit). The CORBA exception is raised in pyorbit-servant.c:200, in pyorbit_servant_generic_skel_func, where imethod->name is "ref" and PyObject_GetAttrString(pyservant, "ref") is returning NULL. I'm still not sure yet where this "ref" string is coming from. Any ideas? Thanks, --Tessa _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/