Re: Crashes with GTK 2.8.12 and above

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:08, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some problems with newer GTK versions(2.8.12 and above) and my
> application(http://geany.uvena.de). It crashes with segmentation faults
> inside GTK. With GTK 2.8.10, it works at its best.
> I and some other people tested it with GTK 2.8.12, 2.8.13 and 2.8.16
> and crashes randomly. This means, sometimes the application works a few
> minutes, somtimes a few seconds and sometimes it crashes before(or
> while) the main window is initialized. It seems, that no special action
> is necessary, only click somewhere, on a scrollbar, on the file open
> dialog or whatever.
>
> I have no idea, for what reason it crashes, so if anyone knows this
> issue or have any hints, I would be really grateful.
>
> If you need more information, please ask.
>
> The following are some backtraces from gdb on different systems, I hope
> they are at least a bit helpful. The first and last call in my code is
> in main.c in line 577, this line calls only gtk_main().

If you have memory corruption, the faulty code may lie elsewhere.  I suggest 
you run the program under valgrind using linux (valgrind does not work with 
FreeBSD) and that will tell you if and where you have corrupted the heap.

Chris