Re: stale GObjects

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mark Stratman <mark sporkstorms org> writes:
> I've recently made some changes to a program and now whenever the
> program exits, it spews out a bunch of messages like this:
>
> GLib-GObject-Message: stale GObjects: 76
> GLib-GObject-Message: [0x8075c48] stale GdkPixbuf   ref_count=1
> GLib-GObject-Message: [0x80f4cb0] stale PangoXftFont    ref_count=1
> GLib-GObject-Message: [0x80fc508] stale GdkKeymap   ref_count=1
> ....
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to figure out why this is
> happening?  I'm guessing that I inadvertantly messed up something else
> in the process of changing the program.  But if not, for what it's
> worth, the changes made involved switching from gnome-config to GConf.

ORBit turns on this debug spew from GLib. Presumably the intent is to
turn it off in production versions of ORBit.

Havoc