[Geany] Crash in Windows and Recovery

[Lex Trotman]

On 8 September 2010 01:30, Ronan Chilvers <ronan at d3r.com> wrote:
> On 4 September 2010 19:54, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have had Geany lock up solid a few times in Windows. This seems to
>> happen when I am trying to adjust the size of the Message Window or the
>> Sidebar. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be reproducible. When it happens
>> Geany's CPU usage goes to 100% and it is completely unresponsive and will
>> not repaint its window.
>>
>> I suppose this could just as likely be a problem with the GTK port to
>> Windows as with Geany, but I wondered if it has ever been seen before. More
>> importantly, when it happens, is there any way to recover the changes I have
>> made since the last save?
>
> I have this happen very occasionally on my Ubuntu machine. Currently using
> 0.20 r5714 (has happened with previous versions). Geany essentially freezes
> completely although I don't see the high CPU usage. It doesn't recover. I
> end up having to kill it from a terminal. Fire it up again and it all works
> fine.
> I wonder if this points to a GTK problem rather than Geany problem?

Possibly, or part of Geany or a plugin isn't properly reentrant.  I
guess you can't give a definite repeatable way of causing it, but in
general what are you doing when it happens, what plugins are you
using, how many files, what filesystems, ie all local files or some
remote ones?

 I guess
> I could run in a gdb session or something to see if I can catch it?

That would be good if you can and post a backtrace.

Cheers
Lex

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