Re: ephy-profile-migrator crashing

[Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>]

On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 07:22 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> I think the mmaps are probably unrelated.
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 11:51 pm, Braden McDaniel <
> braden endoframe com> 
> wrote:
> > Looks like it's time to compile epiphany from source.
>
> Do me a favor and save a backup copy of your old profile directory,
> so 
> that you can reproduce the problem.

Of course.

> If you're willing to compile from source, you can work around the 
> problem by opening ephy-profile-migrator.c, searching for 
> EphyProfileMigrator migrators[], and then removing all the migrators 
> other than migrate_bookmarks and migrate_bookmarks_timestamp... 
> assuming the bug is not one of those migrators.
>
> If you want to go above and beyond, you can "bisect" the problem by 
> removing half the migrators and seeing if the problem goes away. If 
> not, remove the other half of the migrators. That should narrow down 
> the list of suspect migrators by half. Then do so again with the 
> remaining suspect migrators, and repeat... it should only take a few 
> steps to pinpoint exactly which migrator is causing the fd leak.
> Then 
> we'll have a somewhat better chance of guessing what's wrong.

I'll do that.  It may be a few days before I can get to this; but I
will get to it.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>