[Reportbug-maint] Bug#620225: GTK+ UI errors: segfaults, floating-point exceptions, pango error

[Bruno Filipe Oliveira Ramos]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.4.3
Followup-For: Bug #620225

Dear Maintainer,

I have been looking at this problem and I think I might have some clues on what
is causing the error.

>From what I could find in my searches (gdb mainly) the problem is related to
the fact the reportbug is updating the UI directly from a thread.

Apparently the right way to update the UI directly from a thread is to use
gobject.idle_add().

>From the traces I got from gdb it seems that the problem was coming from the
call to label.set_text () so I modified all the calls to that to use idle_add.
And everything seems to be working ok here, no crashes for me now.

I hope this helps or at least could give you some clues on how to fix the
problem.

I'm not a python programmer so please take my patch with a grain of salt :)


Best regards,

Bruno Ramos



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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

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Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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