Re: Making GNOME crash

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

As I said in IRC, I'm not terribly convinced we do a great job of
fixing the crashes we already have, much less all the new crashes this
will introduce. But I'm willing to be swayed by analysis of the
incoming/outgoing crasher bug flow we currently have.

Luis

On 11/6/05, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> The next releases of glib (HEAD and glib-2-8) will support a new debug
> flag for the G_DEBUG environment variable: fatal_criticals. This make
> the program crash on critical warnings.
>
> I propose to use this nice feature during the development cycles to help
> eradicate all these critical warnings. I made a simple patch for
> gnome-session:
>         http://www.gnome.org/~vuntz/tmp/gnome-session.diff
>
> Why? Well, we currently have critical warnings in a lot of modules. And
> we don't care since we don't notice them. With this, we could easily
> notice them and have nice stack traces to fix them. This should result
> in less bugs.
>
> Does it make the desktop unusable? Well, the wncklet-applet crashes [1],
> it seems bug-buddy crashes on Fedora [2] and, err, I can't use
> evolution ;-) More crashes are expected, but I think the sooner we fix
> the critical warnings, the better.
>
> What do you think?
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149326 with a patch
> [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320062
>
> Vincent
>
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