Re: trayer crashes sawfish

["Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchinson googlemail com>]

>> can you still reproduce this crash? I've found a way to get a very
>> useful debugging information from crashes, but it is simplest to do
>> with debian. Do you use debian? See my other post in another thread.
>> If you can get debug info like me, we could find the root cause of
>> this crash.
>>
>> instructions shortly:
>>
>> 1. create librep-dbg and rep-gtk-dbg packages and install them (see other
>> thread), only difference is that it should be:
>>
>>       Depends: librep9 (= ${binary:Version})
>>
>>    Rodrigo missed '9' here. Also make sure that sawfish-dbg is installed.
>>
>> 2. then compile librep and rep-gtk, do this very analogous to:
>>
>>       http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_prepare_a_patch
>>
>>    just replace "sawfish" with "librep", etc.. ; and skip steps 3,4,5
>>
>> 3. start screen
>>  $ export DISPLAY=:0
>>  $ ulimit -c unlimited
>>  $ valgrind sawfish > vg-all-mesgs 2>&1
>> after crash:
>>  $ gdb --eval-command=bt `which sawfish` ./vgcore.10238 >
>> vg-sawfish-backtrace
>>
>> 4. now you have very useful files vg-all-mesgs and vg-sawfish-backtrace
>>
>> 5. we will need exact version numbers of packages that you used here:
>> sawfish, librep, rep-gtk. Because those two files
>> (vg-sawfish-backtrace, vg-all-mesgs) will be pointing to a line in
>> the source code in a certain file, where the crash happened. And
>> source code changes a lot, and so the line numbers. So we must be
>> sure that we are looking at exactly the same source code that was
>> used on your computer, so that the line numbers will match.
>
> Thanks for the detailed info, I don't use debian but fedora but will
> try to do the same.
> I'll post the results as soon as I have them.

The following combination works with trayer, sawfish doesn't crash anymore:

sawfish-1.3.5.1
librep-0.17.2
rep-gtk-0.18.3

Cheers,
Daniel


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