Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Norman L. Smith <nls1729 gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 08:23 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote:
>> Just in case it helps others that *do* crash the prefs tool are:
>>
>> - status-area-horizontal-spacing also a fabulous extension by Amy
>> - Window Buttons by Amy
>> - Maximus by Amy, which is also throwing an error that holds the prefs
>> tool open now, under the latest 3.4.2-3.7.1 which I just updated to here
>> and it reoccurs any time I try to open the prefs tool for that
>> extension, in the last 3.4.2 it would just crash and disappear like the
>> others do: http://paste.opensuse.org/15445377
>>
>> - Dash to Dock
>> - Activities Configurator
>> - Multiple Monitor Panels
>>
>> Besides the one which still crashes it, the others all make the box
>> segfault and vanish with no stack trace, immediately.
>>
>
> Craig:
>
> I have tried more extensions and find that it "appears" extensions with
> prefs.js which create a new GObject.Class crash and others that just use
> widgits or prototypes in prefs.js don't.  I am testing on 12.2 rc2 with
> gnome-shell-3.4.2-3.7.1.x86_64.
>
> I wonder why OpenSuse has a problem and the Fedora 17 that I installed
> the 3.4.2 tarball from the Gnome repository does not crash.

Probably because it was built without systemtap support, which
prevents the TRACE macro line from being compiled.

> Norman
>
>
>> > >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Norman L. Smith <nls1729 gmail com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >> > Jasper:
>> > >> >
>> > >> > As I understand the only thing that is crashing is
>> > >> > gnome-shell-extension-prefs as described in Amy's first post.  The
>> > >> > crashes on OpenSuse are not random they occur any time an
>> > extension's
>> > >> > pref's widget is loaded.
>> >
>> > Jasper:
>> >
>> > I loaded more extensions with prefs on the OpenSuse 12.2 rc2 system.
>> >
>> > "any time an extension's pref's widget is loaded." is not correct.  So
>> > far I can only say the two extensions that fail are Amy's and mine.  The
>> > ones that I've tested that don't fail use prototypes and not objects.  I
>> > now think I understand your reference to:
>> >
>> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gjs/commit/?id=123b631e40b8e60475e41d32263a3e99207dcfde
>> >
>> >
>> > Norman
>> >
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  Jasper