Re: Gdk segfault messages

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Dominik Rothert <domi@netcologne.de> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 02:30:55PM -0500,
> 		Miguel de Icaza wrote ...
> 
> 
> > > Using the new gtk-1.1.2 anf glib-1.1.3 along with gnome-0.30 I'm getting
> > > the following message running gnothello:
> > > Gdk-Message: 
> > > ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught
> > I can not reproduce this problem myself.  Are you sure you dont have
> > any older gtk+ libraries installed on the system lying around or at
> > the time you compiled the code?
> 
> I have the same libraries and the same problem. 
> Note that I hadn't this problem with gtk-1.1.
> 
> BTW:
> 
> domi:~ > gnome-help-browser
> Gdk-Message:
> ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught
> 
> I get this message from various GNOME apps, since I use gtk-1.1.2.

This is most likely not a problem with GDK at all - GDK just
installs the segfault handler, so puts its name on the message.

You can find out where it is segfaulting by running it under
gdb, and making a backtrace:

gdb gnothello
(gdb) r
(gdb) where

Regards,
                                        Owen