[PlanetCCRMA] Jamin causing kwin SIGSEGV on open/save

[Jan Depner]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:42, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 04:23:22 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:38, ejbjr wrote:
> > > I'm running an FC1+Planet CCRMA machine, 'fully loaded', and completely 
> > > up to date (according to synaptic).
> > > Sometime recently Jamin started misbehaving.  There are a number of 
> > > issues here, but the first and most serious is that jamin can no longer 
> > > load or save configuration files.  When I click on file -> (open, save, 
> > > or save as), I loose all window title bars, and get a message box which 
> > > says kwin recieved a SIGSEGV.
> > > 
> > > jamin:        0.95.0-1.rhfc1.ccrma
> > > qjackctl:    0.2.15-2.rhfc1.ccrma
> > > jack-audio-connection-kit:        0.99.0-2.rhfc1.ccrma
> > > kdebase:    6:3.1.4-7
> > > kernel:        2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure where to begin on debugging this.  Has anyone else had a 
> > > similar problem?  Searching for jamin & kwin in the ccrma and laug lists 
> > > hasn't turned up anything.  The Jamin list has some messages about jamin 
> > > crashing KDE, but (1) shows no resolution and (2) is about the jackd 
> > > watchdog sending a SIGKILL to the process group, not kwin suffering a 
> > > SIGSEGV.
> > 
> >     I have the same problem.  I'm running the same apps as you are. 
> > This is strictly a JAMin/KDE problem though.  It doesn't happen under
> > any other WM that I know of.  You can actually run jamin -d with nothing
> > else going on and cause it to happen.  I have no idea how to debug the
> > problem.  If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.
> 
> IIUC, the only connection between them is via the X server. You could
> maybe connect an strace process to the X server to see what its sending to
> the WM, but it will be hard to spot whats causing the problem I think.
> 
> I guess youve allready tried getting a core dump from the WM?
> 

   The error message contains a backtrace.  It says the error comes from
libpthread.so.  The error occurs when we do 

gtk_widget_show ((GtkWidget *) file_selector);

in callbacks.c (on_open1_activate)


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