Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus News crashes pretty frequently

[Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann mandrakesoft com>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:

> On 23Jul2001 01:54PM (-0600), Dan Hensley wrote:
> > It crashed on me again just now.  It crashes fairly frequently, but
> > unfortunately whenever it does bug-buddy can't come up with a backtrace.
> > Has anyone else noticed its instability (it's always been unstable for
> > me)?  I guess I can try running nautilus-news in gdb whenever I launch
> > Nautilus, but the crashes are pretty unpredictable.
> > 
> 
> Whoops, I ran under the debugger some more and it looks like there are
> still some crashes. 
> 
> 
> Received Segmentation fault in LWP 3105 while waiting for SIGSTOP.
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 987076 (LWP 23189)]
> 0x409adbe1 in __libc_free (mem=0x40c70530) at malloc.c:3033
> 3033	malloc.c: No such file or directory.
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x409adbe1 in __libc_free (mem=0x40c70530) at malloc.c:3033
> #1  0x408ab943 in g_free (mem=0x40c00000) at gmem.c:411

[...]

> This kind of smells of a double-free or the like so I'll try leaving
> it running overnight under gdb with MALLOC_CHECK_=2 set and see if that
> sheds light on the matter.

it also might be due to memory corruption.

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