[Geany] Crash in Windows and Recovery

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:27:02 +0100, Ronan wrote:

>2010/9/8 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
>
>> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:22:40 +1000, Lex wrote:
>>
>> >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?
>>
>> In case you ask how to:
>>
>> run Geany in gdb as usual:
>>
>> gdb geany
>> [...]
>> (gdb) run
>> [...]
>>
>> And once it freezes, change back to the gdb prompt, hit Ctrl-C and
>> type 'backtrace'. The result should help to track this down,
>> hopefully.
>>
>>
>Thanks all. Will run it via gdb for a while and see how it goes.

Let's hope it freezes again, haha.


Regards,
Enrico

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