Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] gm crashing: I did it!

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi Julien,

I'm unfortunately aware of this. The problem is not GnomeMeeting but
GConf. For a reason that I don't understand, when you "unset" a key
(gconftool-2 --unset) that has no default value (like when you delete a
non-empty group) while gconf notifiers are listening for modifications,
GConf crashes and GM too. The workaround in GnomeMeeting is to first
delete the notifiers, unset the key, reload the notifiers. But if you do
it from withing GConf, it will crash.

I need to find a way to reproduce this in a small test case program and
mail it to Havoc so that he fixes the problem.

A backtrace shows the problem appears in internal gconf functions.

Le jeu 16/10/2003 à 20:19, PUYDT Julien a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to crash gm. I figured out gconf was a highway to success to
> that goal.
> 
> t was very surprising because some things worked:
> * from gconf-editor, I removed a contact in a group: the contact
> disappeared from gm's window;
> * from gconf-editor, I removed an empty group: the group disappeared
> from gm's window.
> 
> Now, the failing test is: create a group, it appears in
> contacts->groups_list; add a contact in that group, that makes a new key
> appear in contacts->groups. Now, use gconf-editor, to delete that new
> key, and gm should crash.
> 
> I don't know how to reproduce that from only within gm... I agree this
> doesn't look like a real-life problem report, but the crash is an
> indication there's something wrong somewhere...
> 
> Snark
> 
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