Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:13:35 -0400 From: "Morten Welinder" <mortenw@gnome.org> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Gnumeric Crashes Message-ID: <118833cc0708030813m355ea086j5b2279e40bcde71c@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear FreeBSD people, the Gnumeric team has recently received a number of crash reports from FreeBSD users, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450348 We do not know why Gnumeric crashes on those systems and we have been unable to get more information out of the reporters. We have two suspects: * Themes. the "Mist" and "Industrial" themes (and probably more) can corrupt memory, see bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438456 This would affect all Gtk+ applications although some might just get lucky and not crash. What version of gtk-engines does a regular FreeBSD system use? * (A bit of a long shot:) Some of the stack traces point inside the dynamic loader at a point where Gnumeric is unloading dynamic libraries. How well is that tested under FreeBSD? -- Most programs just link-in objects and only discard via exit(2). To trigger library loading and unloading, it should be enough to enter "=sin(42)+min(12,23)" in a cell and exit. For what it is worth, Valgrind on Linux and (a while back) Purify on Solaris report no relevant issues. Coverty has no relevant complaints. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Morten Welinder terra@gnome.org (Please CC)
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