Re: Panel event filter crash #97487

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-panel/gnome-panel/ChangeLog#94

That checkin is probably the ideal place to start digging. There are
also a couple of other 'new' crashers in panel since that patch went in-
besides 97487, see also 98274 and 98853.

Luis

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 15:43, Owen Taylor wrote:
> If someone wants some debugging glory, a good one
> to tackle would be:
> 
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97487
> 
> The brief summary is that the GDK event filter lists are
> getting corrupted in the panel, somehow.
> 
> It could be:
> 
>  - Random memory corruption problems elsewhere in the
>    panel.
> 
>  - The panel (or libwnck) doing something nasty like
>    destroying a window with filters out of the filter
>    for that window.
> 
>  - Some more subtle reentrancy bug in GDK.
> 
> In the last case, it could even theoretically be the
> same as the pestistantly unfixed GNOME-1.4 desk-guide
> crash.
> 
> It would be nice to get this one tracked down before
> we ship GTK+-2.2.0 to make sure that it isnt' a GTK+
> bug.
> 
> Probably the right first steps in debugging the problem
> would be:
> 
>  A) Figure out a way of reproducing the problem
>     reliably.
> 
>  B) Instrument all the GDK portions that handle filters
>     (add/remove/destroy window)
> 
> Alternatively, just staring at all the code in the
> panel and libwnck that deals with event filters might
> be productive.
> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
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