Re: Does CVS gconf have known problems?

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Malcolm,

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 15:44, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:17:57PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> > > I have just been building recent versions of everything
> > > (installed into a clean directories, so I know there is no extraneous
> > > cruft interfering with things) and gconf is dumping core during the
> > > install rule of eog. The message in /var/log/messages is telling me to
> > > report a bug, but just filing "it dumped core" is not really helpful, so
> > > I'll need to spend a bit of time working out what is going on on.
> > 
> > If it reliably crashes, just shut it down (gconftool-2 --shutdown)
> > then run a "gdb gconfd-2" from a terminal and get a backtrace.
> 
> Yeah, I've got that already. It does not look blindingly helpful,
> though, so I was going to dig deeper. However, I am not going to have
> time to do this in the near future, so I have dropped bug #110154 in
> your pile. I'll keep my b0rked setup around in case you want me to run
> any tests to narrow this down. I'm sorry not to be able to get a bit
> closer to the cause of the problem.

	Its a recent ORBit2 bug. I just saw it fly past in my bugzilla mailbox:

	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110140

	There was a recent commit in this area. I'll probably take a look
shortly ...

Good Luck,
Mark.