Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Segfault on Ubuntu Feisty

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Owen Barton wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been experiencing recurrent segfaults and freeze-ups (kill -9ers)
> using Ekiga on Ubuntu Fiesty (9.04). I used it extensively with Intrepid
> (8.10) without any issues. The only think that may be slightly unusual about
> my setup is (a) I use Pulseaudio with Ekiga (I like the ability to not have
> locking issues with music players etc) and (b) I have a wireless USB
> headset. When I first upgraded I had some issues with pulseaudio crashing,
> which I suspect was related to delay/timing issues with the USB headset - I
> upgraded to a more recent pulseaudio and have not had subsequent pulseaudio
> crashes since then. Ekiga has still crashed and frozen and appears
> unaffected by the pulseaudio upgrade. Sometimes it crashes on the first call
> after startup, and sometimes it lasts several (long) calls without a
> problem.

Several crashes have been fixed in the stable branch.  I propose you to
use it.

> Hence, I downloaded the latest trunks for ptlib, opal and ekiga and compiled
> them all with debug support and captured a debug log (attached). To
> reproduce I simply connected to a remote SIP conference extension (I have
> obfusicated IPs and domains to protect the innocent).
> 
> If anyone has any ideas/patches, or would like me to perform further tests
> please let me know.

Trunk is not too stable these times.  Please compile the stable branch.

> PS. I had one issue with the instructions at
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compiling_Ekiga - I needed to use "debug
> make" for opal (as with ptlib), otherwise when compiling ekiga after a
> (successful) "./autogen.sh  --prefix=/usr --enable-opal-debug"  it exits
> with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopal_d".

It is written that:
- either you compile all the three without debug
- or al the three with debug
so it's ok, isn't it?
"Like for opal, ekiga has to be told whether to use the debug or
optimized versions of the ptlib and opal library. Thus if you have
compiled the debug versions of the libraries, you will have to use debug
build of ekiga."

-- 
Eugen