Re: [g-a-devel]Bug hunting

[Bernard Hugueney <bernard hugueney lip6 fr>]

Le Jeudi 19 Juin 2003 10:28, Padraig O'Briain a écrit :
> Bernard,
>
> I will be very happy to try and resolve your problems. However, I

Thank you very much !

> do need a stack trace for the crashing program and if possible, a
Of course. I was jusrt wondering if I needed the latest (and greatest 
!) versions. Anyway I could rebuild nearly evey relevant library ( I 
'm only missong Glib now) in debug mode on the (up-to-date) Mandrake 
Cooker box.

This allowed me to get a better understanding of my problem : 
it not pretty :-(
First, let me introduce my goal :
I would like to log GUI <-> user interactions.
In order to get meaninful event description, I need the GUI context of 
the event. (mouse button clic is not enough, I want to know it's on a 
button "OK" of the window "Open file").
At-spi was the best thing I could find to do that.

At first, I tought that I could simply register for the events, and 
when it happens, follow the linkage from event->source with 
getParent().
Not so :-(
When GUI elements are destroyed, the links

> description of how to reproduce the crcash so I can try and
> reproduce it.
>
> Padraig
>
> > Hello all !
> > I'm not sure if this is the relevent list to ask for this
> > question :-( I'm asking here because the bug is caused by a
> > program of mine making extensive use of at-spi to log events of
> > other gnome/GTK applications.
> >
> > However, this program is causing other gnome software to crash
> > :-( Eog for example has a SIGSEGV upon closing when I'm logging
> > it's events.
> >
> > Because of the fast pace of accessibility developpement, I'm
> > coding on a Mandrake Cooker [1] (more up-to-date than my debian
> > unstable box
> >
> > :-( ).
> >
> > However, not being the administrator of this box, I'm limited in
> > my recompile-with-debug-symbols ability :-(
> > I managed to recompile eog with debug symbols and it appears that
> > the SIGSEGV happens in libbonoboui-2.so.0
> > ( bonobo_dock_item_grip_get_type ).
> >
> > This is most annoying because it then renders my whole X session
> > useless (probably catching events) :-(
> >
> > I could not find something relevent in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
> > .
> >
> > Does anybody here have an advice (How to hunt ? Where to ask ?) ?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance !
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> > [1]
> > libat-spi0-1.3.2-1mdk
> > libat-spi0-devel-1.3.2-1mdk
> > libgail-gnome-devel-1.0.2-2mdk
> > libgail17-devel-1.3.3-1mdk
> > libgail-gnome-1.0.2-2mdk
> > libgail17-1.3.3-1mdk
> > libatk1.0_0-devel-1.3.3-1mdk
> > libatk1.0_0-1.3.3-1mdk
> > libbonoboui2_0-devel-2.3.3-1mdk
> > libbonoboui-2.3.3-1mdk
> > libbonoboui2_0-2.3.3-1mdk
> > eog-2.3.3-1mdk
> >
> >
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