Re: Dia crash on Window Maker

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Dave Bentham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had chance to do some debugging myself today and perhaps got to the
> bottom of it.
> 
> The libsadt_objects.so library in my first gdb script is a red herring.
> Its in fact the previously loaded lib: the Python plugin.

Ah, yes, we've had problems with that before.

> It turns out I had a real old one lying around in /usr/lib/dia, and even
> though I haven't built dia recently with python support it seemed to be
> trying that old plugin: dia did put the error dialog up, but for ages now
> I just'clicked' it away without investigating... :-(

Maybe we should turn off plugins that don't work -- but then of course
people will be confused when they update and don't see the plugin.  Even if
we have a big fat warning to turn it back on when fixed, people will
forget.  But I guess that's better than these strange crashes.

> After removing the offending files, dia is fine. Just to try it, I
> rebuilt dia with python support and again its okay. (Hopefully I'll
> remember its there in two years building dia 0.768...)
> 
> What I don't know is why it SIGSEGVs under xdm sessions and not
> gdm/Gnome... One of the mysteries of software.

Rather mysterious, yes.  The plug-in loader was somewhat hardened for 0.91,
but apparently not enough.

> Anyway, thanks for the previous helps, and I can now get back to my
> UMLing.

Happy UMLing!  (That does sound funny when you say it out loud:)

-Lars

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