On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:02:20 -0400, "Ali Shah" caffeinebot@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am having a significant amount of issues with geany 0.6 opening files. here is one of the segmentation faults I encounter:
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/geany [...] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7bf8683 in gdk_x11_register_standard_event_type () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (gdb) run [...] (gdb) bt #0 0xb7bf8683 in gdk_x11_register_standard_event_type () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
this bug is known. We are investigating where it is located. Perhaps this is a Geany bug or a GTK bug. There are two related bug reports in GTK's bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340830 and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341327
If you want you can try a possibly workaround. Get this file http://files.uvena.de/memwarp.tar.bz2 and extract it somewhere, execute the included make.sh and run Geany the following way: LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libmemwarp.so /path/to/geany
This prevents Geany to free allocated memory, so it will use much more memory as usual. But this makes it stable(probably). Anyway, all allocated memory will be freed when Geany exits.
I hope, we will find the bug soon, so this annoying crashes will end.
regards, Enrico