[Call for Testing] X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Thu Mar 18 19:04:45 UTC 2010


On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:16:12 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:

> Update:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 22:40 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > >    Could you compile xfce4-session with -g and attach gdb to it as
> > > > it's starting up to get a backtrace please?
> > >
> > >
> > > So I am guessing that running gdb on the core file I already have (from
> > > xfce4-session) isn't of any use?
> > > I'll have to figure out how to compil with -g and how to "attach gdb"
> > then.
> >
> > "make -DWITH_DEBUG all deinstall reinstall"
> >
> 
> Ok, I finally found time to try this. After recompiling xfce4-session as
> stated above, I did a 'startxfce4' as root. After that I did 'gdb
> xfce4-session xfce4-session.core'
> Correct so far?
> On loading gdb prints:
> Core was generated by `xfce4-session'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> 
> then proceeds and load symbols.
> I then try a backtrace:
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000000804bbf91c in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #1  0x0000000804bbe71b in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #2  0x0000000804171c75 in dbus_malloc () from /usr/local/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
[snip the rest]

Do you have any strange malloc(3) flags set?

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Gary Jennejohn


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