Re: Making GNOME crash

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 11/6/05, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:
> I'm not really for this at least on the HEAD branch.

That is the only branch it makes even the smallest bit of sense on.

>  Although, one idea
> would be to branch off the ubuntu mirrors and get people who want to test
> it build off of that?  You can use the diffs of whatever the changes are
> into bugzilla. Just a thought.  I think I mentioned this in IRC.
>
> sri
>
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:39:22PM +0100, Vincent Untz 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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