I built & installed gdb in the hope it would point out where gnome-help
keeps crashing - mostly upon exiting it - but the best I'm able to make of
this is that it looks to be some sort of race condition or other threading
related problem with libc.
This system started out as a 2.6.22 kernel based system; the kernel was
upgraded to a 2.6.23 series one around -rc3 and is now using 2.6.23 final.
That shouldn't screw up glibc, should it? From everything I've read it's a
generally bad idea to attempt to upgrade glibc (though at least the major
distros seem to have figured out a way to do it with RPMs, .deb packages,
etc.).
I'm sort of grasping at straws here... still have a UTF-16 char showing up
in a box in HELP but not in gucharmap, and gnome-help crashes on exit more
often than it doesn't - but everything else seems perfectly stable. At this
point, I'm not even sure where to start trying to debug this.
What really sucks is that it all seemed to be working so well...
Thanks
Larry
===== Output from bug buddy post gdb installation =====
Distribution: Unknown
Gnome Release: 2.18.3 2007-10-12 (Larry Morley (LJM))
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.1
System: Linux 2.6.23-mm1 #1 PREEMPT Wed Oct 17 17:51:30 EDT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 70200000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: gnome
Memory status: size: 103825408 vsize: 103825408 resident: 52146176 share:
17371136 rss: 52146176 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1193447858 rtime: 228 utime: 213 stime: 15 cutime:2
cstime: 1 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100
Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome/bin/yelp'
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb6dad6d0 (LWP 1873)]
0xb7fd3410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#0 0xb7fd3410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb70c74db in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xb7f70825 in libgnomeui_segv_handle (signum=11) at gnome-ui-init.c:872
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 0x084308a6 in ?? ()
#5 0xb6dfa54e in nsCOMPtr_base::~nsCOMPtr_base ()
from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/libxpcom_core.so
#6 0xb69a8407 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libnecko.so
#7 0x0814d6f8 in ?? ()
#8 0xb6f9e120 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9 0x081256f0 in ?? ()
#10 0xb6a439fc in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libnecko.so
#11 0x0814d6c4 in ?? ()
#12 0x0814d6b0 in ?? ()
#13 0xbfcc0818 in ?? ()
#14 0xb69a847f in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libnecko.so
#15 0x0814d6b0 in ?? ()
#16 0xb6ab2d94 in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libxpconnect.so
#17 0xbfcc0828 in ?? ()
#18 0xb6a66c68 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libcaps.so
#19 0x00000000 in ?? ()
Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6dad6d0 (LWP 1873)):
#0 0xb7fd3410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb70c74db in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb7f70825 in libgnomeui_segv_handle (signum=11) at gnome-ui-init.c:872
estatus = -1208081191
sa = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0, sa_sigaction = 0},
sa_mask = {__val = {0, 151747860, 3217818696, 3069031812, 3069825012,
3069829408, 151747784, 3217818728, 3069829408, 151827120, 208,
3069031812, 151747784, 151747860, 3217818744, 3070755729, 3069829408,
138784592, 88, 3069031812, 3069825012, 3069829408, 151827016,
3069031812, 3069829408, 138435152, 16, 3069737280, 3069829408,
138784480, 24, 3069031812}}, sa_flags = -1225934135,
sa_restorer = 0xb6f9e120 <main_arena>}
pid = 0
in_segv = 1
#3 <signal handler called>
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x084308a6 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#5 0xb6dfa54e in nsCOMPtr_base::~nsCOMPtr_base ()
from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/libxpcom_core.so
No symbol table info available.
#6 0xb69a8407 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libnecko.so
No symbol table info available.
#7 0x0814d6f8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#8 0xb6f9e120 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#9 0x081256f0 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0xb6a439fc in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libnecko.so
No symbol table info available.
#11 0x0814d6c4 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#12 0x0814d6b0 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#13 0xbfcc0818 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#14 0xb69a847f in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libnecko.so
No symbol table info available.
#15 0x0814d6b0 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#16 0xb6ab2d94 in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libxpconnect.so
No symbol table info available.
#17 0xbfcc0828 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#18 0xb6a66c68 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/components/libcaps.so
No symbol table info available.
#19 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#0 0xb7fd3410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
The program is running. Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) [answered Y;
input not from terminal]
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