Re: Dia crash on Window Maker
- From: Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>
- To: dia-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Dia crash on Window Maker
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:37:27 -0500
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Dave Bentham wrote:
Hi,
I've had chance to do some debugging myself today and perhaps got to the
bottom of it.
The libsadt_objects.so library in my first gdb script is a red herring.
Its in fact the previously loaded lib: the Python plugin.
Ah, yes, we've had problems with that before.
It turns out I had a real old one lying around in /usr/lib/dia, and even
though I haven't built dia recently with python support it seemed to be
trying that old plugin: dia did put the error dialog up, but for ages now
I just'clicked' it away without investigating... :-(
Maybe we should turn off plugins that don't work -- but then of course
people will be confused when they update and don't see the plugin. Even if
we have a big fat warning to turn it back on when fixed, people will
forget. But I guess that's better than these strange crashes.
After removing the offending files, dia is fine. Just to try it, I
rebuilt dia with python support and again its okay. (Hopefully I'll
remember its there in two years building dia 0.768...)
What I don't know is why it SIGSEGVs under xdm sessions and not
gdm/Gnome... One of the mysteries of software.
Rather mysterious, yes. The plug-in loader was somewhat hardened for 0.91,
but apparently not enough.
Anyway, thanks for the previous helps, and I can now get back to my
UMLing.
Happy UMLing! (That does sound funny when you say it out loud:)
-Lars
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