Re: [g-a-devel] Strange crashes with pyatspi

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

Hi Zack,

Zack Cerza wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I've been working on a port[0] of dogtail to pyatspi whenever I've 
> been able to for the last few months, and I'm having one major problem: 
> Sometimes the entire session just crashes. That's right, the whole 
> session. :(
>
> I've spent a lot of time trying to debug this to no avail. The furthest 
> I've gotten is that sometimes at-spi-registryd gets a SIGABRT, and 
> exits. The next time dogtail (or even accerciser) starts after this, the 
> session goes *BOOM*. Even toggling 
> /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility to 'false', and then to 'true' 
> after at-spi-registryd dies will trigger this.
>
> The most reliable way I've found to reproduce the problem is:
>
> 1 Run accerciser.
> 2 Run sniff (from dogtail).
> 3 Here, one of them might hang.
> 4 Close both (^C or kill if necessary).
> 5 Here, at-spi-registryd dies.
>   
Do you have a trace for this crash?

Thanks,
Li

> 6 Run sniff or accerciser.
> 7 Here, the session goes down, and you get GDM back.
>
> I don't know much else about what's causing this, but it's definitely a 
> blocker for ditching the mess that is pyspi (even though pyspi is very 
> broken in F7). Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Zack
>
> [0] http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/dogtail/branches/pyatspi/
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