[Geany] Occasional crashes when switching projects

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Lex

No worries. I'll do that and post what I find.

Frank, I'll have a go with GDB too and see what I can get out of it.

Cheers

Ronan

2010/1/22 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>

> Hi Ronan,
>
> Can you run Geany from a terminal with the --verbose option and see if
> there are any messages before it crashes.
>
> Also can you run for a couple of days always closing the open project
> then opening the new one and see if it still crashes and if so if it
> is in the close or open steps.
>
> We need your help to narrow the problem down because I am running 0.18
> and 0.19 on x86-64 and have no trouble swapping projects, but I am
> using C, C++, Python so the diff may be the language specific parts.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> 2010/1/22 Ronan Chilvers <ronan at d3r.com>:
> > Hi all
> > Thanks to the geany developers for giving us a great editor. I was
> wondering
> > if anyone had encountered the same problem I have when switching
> projects.
> > I'm currently using geany 0.19 (svn >=r4530) although this issue has
> > intermittently been happening for me since version ~0.17. Essentially I
> have
> > a project open. I want to load another project. I choose the project from
> > Project > Recent Projects. Geany asks if I want to close the current
> project
> > and I click yes. Geany thinks for a few seconds and then segfaults. The
> same
> > thing happens using the Recent Projects submenu or using Projects > Open.
> > I've seen this happen on 2 seperate machines (ubuntu intrepid and ubuntu
> > karmic) - the only link would be that the .config/geany and .geany would
> > have been copied over from one machine to the other when my user data was
> > migrated.
> > This happens less frequently now than it has in the past (its happened
> twice
> > today) but does still crop up. I'm editing PHP / SQL / BASH files. I have
> > the file browser and symbol list enabled in the side pane. I have no
> plugins
> > (apart from the file browser) enabled. I'm using a custom snippets.conf
> but
> > the default syntax highlighting files. I had the distribution geany
> packages
> > installed as well on the ubuntu intrepid machine but they are not
> installed
> > on the karmic machine (they were and I've now removed them). Geany is
> > installed into /usr/local. The machines are both 64 bit.
> > Erm... anything else that might be helpful to diagnose what's happening?
> > Anyone else seen this? I haven't been able to find anything on the web
> about
> > it. Only a tiny irritation in an otherwise great tool!
> >
> > Cheers
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