Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-06-02 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Hauke Lathus from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel: :On Saturday 02 June 2012, Raphael Manfredi wrote: :> could you also try to check out the latest git, with no modification, :> and see whether it now works? I've made a tiny change that alters :> the initial memory bootstrapping sequence. : :

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-06-02 Thread Hauke Lathus
Hi, On Saturday 02 June 2012, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > could you also try to check out the latest git, with no modification, > and see whether it now works? I've made a tiny change that alters > the initial memory bootstrapping sequence. That works for me, thank you! This means that the experim

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-06-02 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Hauke, could you also try to check out the latest git, with no modification, and see whether it now works? I've made a tiny change that alters the initial memory bootstrapping sequence. Another user independently confirmed that the problems comes from my malloc() implementation (i.e. switching b

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-06-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Hauke Lathus from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel: :(gdb) thread apply all bt : :Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f53c0dd0920 (LWP 9424)): :#0 0x7f53bd99a9f0 in read () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 :#1 0x7f53be84c50f in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux- :gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 :#2 0x7f53be

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-06-01 Thread Hauke Lathus
On Wednesday 23 May 2012, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > On which OS (+version + 32/64 bits) are you? Current Debian testing, amd64 > When it freezes, can you launch a debugger on it and see what it's > doing, taking a stack trace? > > Something like: > > gdb /usr/bin/gtk-gnutella 43543 >

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-05-22 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Hauke Lathus from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel: :I cannot even start the latest version. It always freezes after some :seconds (before or just after the first window appears, depending on the :version), so that I have to kill -9 it. : :I have tracked that bug down to commit 6857c124 (xmal

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-05-22 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Alex from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel: :I hope I'm not suggesting something you already know but have you :given Valgrind a go? I tend to track their SVN but they have just :released a new version in the last few months. Aside from the default :memcheck tool there are also massif (heap pro

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-05-22 Thread Hauke Lathus
Hi, On Tuesday 22 May 2012, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > Please make sure to grab the latest "devel" branch and test it > thoroughly if you can recompile your gtk-gnutella. I cannot even start the latest version. It always freezes after some seconds (before or just after the first window appears, d

Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-05-22 Thread Alex
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:07:38AM +0200, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > Despite the known latent memory bugs, I have decided to code-freeze the > current git "devel" branch and make it a candidate release. > > There are two main memory bugs that I know of: a huge memory leak (only > witnessed by one p

[gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

2012-05-21 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Despite the known latent memory bugs, I have decided to code-freeze the current git "devel" branch and make it a candidate release. There are two main memory bugs that I know of: a huge memory leak (only witnessed by one person, systematicallu) and a random malloc() freelist corruption that happen