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

[Sandro Tosi]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 PM, macarthur <133794m3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

because you chose so when reportbug was executed the first time. You
can change it either running it with --configure or editing
~/.reportbugrc

> 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

this is new, and it's probably something broken on your system.

> 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

This is a known issue, we still hadn't find the cause and fix it

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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