Re: [orca-list] pidgin crashing randomly when restarting orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Try:

1. gdb --core <existing core dump file name>
2. bt full

--joanie

On 10/24/2016 12:45 PM, Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:
> Hi again,
> at the risk of sounding dumb *grins*, how can I get a full backtrace ?
> Do I need to run pidgin in gdb and wait till the crash happens ? Cause
> this crash is really hard to reproduce, sometimes it will happen,
> sometimes not. If I have to, I will, I just hoped this core dump could
> be more useful than that
> Thanks !
>
> Le 2016-10-24 11:34, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > Could you get a full backtrace?
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 10/24/2016 07:49 AM, Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > since this is kinda hard to reproduce, I kept the full core dump and ran
> > > gdb on it with: coredumpctl gdb 15857 -- the pid of pidgin at the time
> > > of the crash. Then I used bt to get the backtrace, and here it is:
> > >
> > > #0  0x00007ff063c9004f in raise () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
> > > #1  0x00007ff063c9147a in abort () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
> > > #2  0x000000000048125a in  ()
> > > #3  0x00007ff06400c080 in <signal handler called> () at
> > > /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
> > > #4  0x00007ff064ba483d in g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a () at
> > > /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> > > #5  0x00007ff064b8488e in g_object_ref () at
> > > /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> > > #6  0x00007ff064896840 in g_hash_table_foreach () at
> > > /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > #7  0x00007ff05876517d in  () at /usr/lib/libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0
> > > #8  0x00007ff058762388 in  () at /usr/lib/libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0
> > > #9  0x00007ff066f44993 in  () at /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
> > > #10 0x00007ff066f36014 in dbus_connection_dispatch () at
> > > /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
> > > #11 0x00007ff05852f7b5 in  () at /usr/lib/libatspi.so.0
> > > #12 0x00007ff0648a7587 in g_main_context_dispatch () at
> > > /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > #13 0x00007ff0648a77f0 in  () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > #14 0x00007ff0648a7b12 in g_main_loop_run () at
> > > /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > > #15 0x00007ff065b6c3a7 in gtk_main () at /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> > > #16 0x0000000000431f59 in main ()
> > >
> > > Oof sorry it was a bit spammy. Anyway, I hope this will help to know
> > > what is actually going on. If it requires something else please let me
> > > know, I will not delete the core dump until this issue has been either
> > > fixed or reported to pidgin themselves.
> > > Thanks !
> > >
> > > Le 2016-10-24 05:50, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > > > Hi Tyna.
> > > >
> > > > If Pidgin is segfaulting, it would be helpful if you could run pidgin
> > > > under gdb, trigger the crash, and then see where the crash is
> > > > occurring.
> > > >
> > > > --joanie
> > > >
> > > > On 10/20/2016 05:37 AM, Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > last week I noticed a strange bug with pidgin and orca that I didn't
> > > > > notice before. Sometimes orca seems to hangs a bit, or it takes up
> > > > > a lot
> > > > > of memory so I need to restart it, but in doing so, it causes
> > > > > pidgin to
> > > > > crash rather badly, badly as in segfault. Is there a way to put that
> > > > > full segfault somewhere so someone can examine it ? Should I simply
> > > > > paste the thing with a pasting service ?
> > > > > Thanks
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