[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728052: Bug#728052: Bug#728052: xfce4-session segfaults when running xpad from terminal

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo

On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 23:07 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> 
> On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 16:46 -0500, Andrew Varner wrote:
> > Package: xfce4-session
> > Version: 4.8.3-3
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: causes serious data loss
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > When I run 'xpad &' from my terminal emulator, xfce4-session segfaults and logs
> > out the entire desktop. This bug is reproducible - it happens every time. My
> > setup is a little strange, in that I am using gnome-terminal. Regardless,
> > xfce4-session should never segfault.

Also, I don't know what gnome-terminal has to do here. xpad is not a
console application, is it?
> > 
> > dmesg log:
> > 
> > [1900718.125090] xfce4-session[6273]: segfault at ffffffff00000000 ip 00007f0abb276507 sp 00007fff0ee3efe0 error 5 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3600.4[7f0abb213000+fc000]
> > [1900904.437287] xfce4-session[12091]: segfault at ffffffff00000000 ip 00007f23edfc5507 sp 00007fff20636160 error 5 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3600.4[7f23edf62000+fc000]
> > 
> > I've marked this as "causes serious data loss", because when the session program
> > ends, the X server closes, and all remaining X clients close without saving
> > data.
> 
> Yeah, well, that's usually not what we mean
> > 
> > I'm open to helping debug this, if anyone knows how to run xfce4-session in
> > gdb while using a display manager.
> 
> Best shot is to use ssh from a remote box.
> > 
> > program versions:
> > 
> > xpad 4.1-1

Fwiw, it seems I can't reproduce here, so you'll really have to provide
a backtrace.


Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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