[Reportbug-maint] Bug#683951: reportbug crashes unless ran from the terminal.

[macarthur]

On 08/05/2012 01:29 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:26 PM, macarthur <133794m3r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As I've said above unless I run reportbug from the terminal it crashes after it
>> has me look over other bugs related to the package I'm about to report, when I
>> hit "continue" it crashes after that screen. But solong as I run it from the
>> terminal it does not crash. Since it doesn't crash from the terminal, I don't
>> know of anyway to debug the thing, but it only crashes if I don't run it from
>> the terminal.
> Do you mean the graphical UI of reportbug crashes while the textual
> one works? If so, can you run
>
> reportbug --ui=gtk2
>
> from the terminal and report the backtrace?
>
> Regards,
The graphical UI works from the terminal, but if I don't run the 
graphical ui from the terminal it crashes. That's the thing that 
confuses me most, since the gtk reportbug still works from the terminal 
but not if ran "normally"

and by normally I mean(since I'm using GNOME), Applications->System 
Tools->Reportbug.

the command for that one is.

reportbug --exit-prompt --ui gtk2

and when I run it from the terminal it's just

reportbug

and it still does the gtk ui. I don't know why it defaults to that, but 
it seems to be. So the thing crashes. It also doesn't seem to crash 
"all" of the time. Only on certain packages here it's fuse-utils.


And when I tried it again(after it was working after it crashed with it 
from the command line)

I got two errors. the first was.

*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: munmap_chunk(): invalid 
pointerSegmentation fault

and the second was

Gdk:ERROR:/scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/gdkregion-generic.c:1108:miUnionNonO: 
assertion failed: (y1 < y2)
Aborted

I don't know what error was causing the crash with fuse-utils, and then 
reportbug, but it seems to happen randomly except when ran from the 
terminal. But now it seems to be crashing with no indication as to why. 
It seems to crash repeatedly for different reasons if it crashes once, 
but if I make it do one that I know _won't_ crash it, it'll work just fine.

For example, I did gnome-about, and then quit normally. Did reportbug, 
and fuse-utils. Both worked just fine.