Re: TreeView crashes X server?

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:22:30PM +0100, Arjan J. Molenaar wrote:
> > On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 11:33, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > If you are looking more closely, Arjan is not really talking about a server
> > > crash
> > > (which would indeed be hard to get),  he simply gets an X error in the
> > > client
> > > as a result of some bad request being sent by GTK.
> > 
> > If I'm lucky that is... Most of the time I have to log in again...
> > 
> > I don't know if poeple are using the new tree stuff right now (using the
> > C interface)... If it works fine for those people it's probably a python
> > wrapper issue...
> 
> Ever since jrb committed the incremental reflow, GtkTreeView seems a
> lot less stable.  Sometimes i get inconsistent behavior as if there are
> some uninitialized variables.  Sometimes i seem to get random memory
> corruption.

Erk.  That shouldn't happen.  I committed a bunch of RBTree corruption
fixes last week.  Does it still happen with current CVS?

> Generally, i am very careful and program as defensively as possible.
> i never saw these types of problems before the incremental reflow
> commit.  i haven't filed bugzilla reports because even the test
> programs which come with gtk+ don't work in obvious ways.

Which ones?  Where?

-Jonathan