Re: yagirc

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Spauldo da Hippie Elf wrote:

> Whilst running yagirc for the first time, I connected to irc.linpeople.org
> (the place to be!) and was chatting along about mail clients or somesuch,
> when yagirc suddenly died.  This was left on the terminal where I ran X:
> 
>  Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1346 (gtk_widget_destroy):
>  assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed.
>  Gdk-Message:
>  ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught

What were you doing when it sigsegv'd?  Where you just chatting or were
you doing something in particular?

> The connect button stayed pressed, and the window did nothing.  I dunno if
> this is a normal feature of gdb or not, since I know beans about it.  Just
> thought I'd mention it.
<SNIP>
> And it worked OK for a while.  Sent a file through dcc, everything went
> pretty normal.  Nice chat for about 20 minutes or so, but I don't live for
> IRC these days, so I got tired and quit.
> 
> When I typed /quit bah..., I got this:
> 
>  Program received signal SIGUSR1, User defined signal 1.
>  0x402f11d4 in __syscall_sigsuspend ()
>  (gdb) continue
>  Continuing.
> 
>  Program exited normally.
>  (gdb)

This is caused by the use of pthreads.  Don't worry about it, it is
completely normal.  We are currently working on a way to do nonblocking
net connects using fork() instead of threads.

> I dunno how to backtrace or anything, but since it didn't crash, I didn't
> try to find out either.

Just type bt in gdb.

> Hope this helps whoever writes yagirc, or someone who is interested in
> fixing it (I would, but alas, I cannot code...  perhaps I can create new
> icons for the buttons or something.  BTW, a font selector would be a nice
> addition, for the people who hang out in ascii-art channels and stuff...  
> variable-width fonts seem a bit mIRCish to me, for some reason...)

The font selector has been on our list of things to do.  I can't say when
we will get to it.

Marcus Brubaker
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