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

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Hi Tyna,

If you could get debug symbols for at-spi2-core and at-spi2-atk, then that 
would be helpful. Looking at your backtrace, the crash comes from 
at-spi2-atk, not pidgin.

Are you using at-spi2-core and at-spi2-atk from master?

I just tried for a few minutes to reproduce the crash but haven't been 
able to; not sure if my set-up is different somehow or if I just didn't 
try for long enough.

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:

> Hi,
> I recompiled pidgin with the debug symbols present this time, also libpurple. 
> I'm now trying to reproduce it, because it's hard. It's totally random, and 
> yes it happens when you restart orca. It'll say screen reader on and if you 
> alt+tab around you'll see your pidgin windows are gone. I am running orca 
> master on ratpoison, I don't use gnome, on ArchLinux.
> Thanks !
>
> Le 2016-10-26 11:40, Mike Gorse a écrit :
> > Hi Tyna,
> >
> > It looks as though gdb didn't load the core. Did you pass "--core 
> > <filename>" when starting gdb (<filename> being the name of your core 
> > file)?
> >
> > Also, it might help if you install debuginfo packages for libatk-bridge and 
> > possibly libdbus.
> >
> > In the meantime, I'll see if I can reproduce. Does the crash happen as soon 
> > as you restart orca? What version of GNOME and pidgin are you using?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Mike
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I guess I'm stuck. Using that command didn't help at all, gdb is now 
> > > complaining there are no symbole tables so it only prit question marks. 
> > > Guess I'll have to go and run pidgin in gdb...