Bug#872912: gnome-orca: Segmentation fault when switching between windows.

[Robert Schindler]

Hi,

Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Thank you for providing those information. Don't forget to CC the bugs mail
> (872912 at bugs.debian.org) to ensure everybody will receive the mail.

Thanks for reminding me :)

> Orca is a python program so it couldn't segfault so the issue is not into
> Orca but in one of its dependencies.
> 
> To figure out what program produces the segfault you could follow those
> steps:
> 0) I never try to figure out a segfault from a python program so I'll learn
> with you on this bug :)
> 1) Install the following package for debugging : gdb python3-dbg
> 2) run gdb for python3 : "gdb python3"
> 3) in the gdb prompt write :
> 3.1) set logging on
> 3.2) run /usr/bin/orca
> 
> Could you provide us the generated GDB log file? (default name is gdb.txt)

Ok, here we go.
It is in atspi... But I have no debugging symbols for that. Seems
I'll have to compile it myself, right? The gdb.txt is attached.

Best regards
Robert
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Reading symbols from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0.0.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/python3...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/db/fc2e1a3c58b6d241b3f9af7b2fb3a24b81b90e.debug...done.
done.
Starting program: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/orca
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff4586700 (LWP 7127)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff1d9b700 (LWP 7128)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff0e3a700 (LWP 7129)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdb93f700 (LWP 7147)]

Thread 1 "orca" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff3b431e6 in atspi_accessible_get_parent () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0
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