Bug#790615: metacity crashes with SIGSEGV in meta_frame_get_frame_bounds

[Alberts Muktupāvels]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Antonio Ospite <ao2 at ao2.it> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:38:04 +0300
> Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts.muktupavels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Since I upgraded to metacity 3.17 I get these sporadic crashes.
> > >
> > > The first thing I looked at was in dmesg and this is what I got:
> > >
> > > traps: metacity[2515] general protection ip:7f1153f2dc00
> sp:7fffac774eb8
> > > error:0 in libmetacity-private.so.3.0.0[7f1153ef4000+a0000]
> > >
> > > I then investigated further with gdb and got a backtrace of the crash,
> > > please see the attached file.
> > >
> > > If I had to guess I'd say that the crash may be related to some
> activity
> > > with modal dialogs from Gtk, but I am not 100% sure about that.
> > >
> >
> > Can you give steps how to reproduce crash?
> >
>
> It does not happen every time, but I'd say that when it does, it is
> after a dialog has been shown.
>
> For instance I use sylpheed, an email client based on Gtk2, and when
> checking new emails a dialog with a progress meter is shown, sometimes
> when metacity crashes it looks like it is when the dialogue is just
> going to be destroyed.
>
> I also managed to trigger the crash using zenity 3.16.3, with "zenity
> --calendar" or "zenity --error" after clicking OK, but this is not
> consistent either, it happens only sometimes.
>

When I try to reproduce it just does not want to crash... :( It happens
when I don't expect it.

Let me know if you have any more questions.
>

Please report this bug upstream:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=metacity

-- 
Alberts Muktupāvels
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