Bug#656564: libglib2.0-0: since upgrade to 2.30.2-5 programs start segfaulting at random

[Michael Biebl]

On 22.01.2012 15:48, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Fr, 20 Jan 2012, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> - Revert this commit and recompile glib2.0 to see if it fixes the crashes
> 
> THis is what I did, I disabled 
>   94-closure-fix-handling-of-ENUMs-and-integral-return-ty.patch
> recompiled and installed, but g-s-d still has the tendency to
> die on me.
> 
> Anything else?

The complete commit also added patch 93-*.patch and modified the symbols
file.
It might be easier to just downgrade to -4 from testing.

> 
>> - Install libglib2.0-0-dbg and libffi5-dbg and get a backtrace or a core
>> dump. For the latter you'll probably need to adjust ulimit.
> 
> Where should I do that in the gnome-session path? /etc/profile?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656808#15

You should then get a core file in ~ whenever g-s-d crashes.

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