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

[Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau <ecole tyna gmail com>]

Hi again,
I'm not using those from master. I'm using the one in the repositories 
of arch. But I can certainly compile them like I did for pidgin. I am 
not able to reproduce it either for now, but it's a surprise, heh. Might 
crash, might not, who knows, smiles.

Le 2016-10-27 12:31, Mike Gorse a écrit :
> 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...