Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Instability and old config

[Pierre-Philippe Coupard <pcoupard easyconnect fr>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> What you did is a pretty bad idea. You mention a bug, and a workaround,
> but you give no backtrace.

I realize that. However, the problem is long to reproduce, and doesn't always 
give the same result. In short, what it is, when I go into the call history 
after 1 or 2 days (from the menu from the KDE dockapp), either the call history 
doesn't come up at all but GM otherwise works fine, or it segfaults (less 
often). I'm not certain if it happens only 1 or 2 days after I answer at least 
one call or not, but it would appear so. That's why I want more time to test, 
and also that's why I reinstalled all the latest libs and zapped my config tree, 
to make sure I eliminate variables from the equation.

The other thing that happened to me today with the latest cvs snapshot, and that 
prompted me to change all the libs and config, is that I rebuilt GM and tried to 
answer a call with the upper-right icon (the problem I reported the other day), 
and it worked once, then GM crashed the second time. After recompiling and 
reinstalling afresh, it now seems to work fine, but I want to stress it more to 
be sure.

> As a conclusion, the problem you are
> mentionning (if any) won't be fixed before the release.

Well I'm sorry, but the problem occurs after hours and hours of GM working fine, 
so I can't compile facts about it faster than it deigns to come up.

> Flushing the GConf keys is not required, I never do it.

That's what I figured too, but I thought I'd ask. Having been in QA before, I 
usually tend to try reproducing a problem on a particular environment, where it 
happens, but in this case, it's just too elusive, so I wanted a clean install to 
assert how and when it happens, and to ensure it wasn't a result of something 
goofed up in my install.

> I really expect it !

Unless something obvious comes up (especially regarding the call icon), I don't 
expect to be able to tell you more for at least 2 days.

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Pierre-Philippe Coupard <pcoupard easyconnect fr>
Software Engineer
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