Bug#424860: eclipse randomly crashes (VNC) X server

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:22:55PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> > Perhaps gdm or the VNC server is crashing, you could tell by attaching a gdb process to the
> > vnc server or to the gdm process once you're logged in, but before crashing.
> 
> Please be patient with me ... I've never used gdb before:
> 
> butters:~# gdb /usr/bin/Xvnc4 21906
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> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db
> library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
> 
> Attaching to program: /usr/bin/Xvnc4, process 21906
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
> 0xb7f4b410 in ?? ()
> 
> [ a few "continue"s to be able to log in, start Eclipse, etc. At the
> time of the crash the VNC connection just freezes but doesn't
> disconnect. gdb shows:]
> 
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0xb7f4b410 in ?? ()

Please do "bt" here and send us the output.


Cheers,
Michael
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