This is weird, I just test your script and launched Denemo 500 times
without crash.
I can't test on GTK2 because Fedora 18 miss some packages (evince). Could
you also test in GTK3 ?
What optimization options have you enabled ?

I ran a checkcpp two days ago and it told me some potential leaks, I'll try
to look at that when I have some time. I would like to play with valgrind
too. Did you usually use those tools ?


2013/5/15 Richard Shann <[email protected]>

> I am fairly sure this started about May 5th, but unfortunately the
> commits about this time make denemo un-compilable, so it is difficult to
> test.
> My suspicion is that it is this change:
>
> commit b56cad8dba8df69afcdf5d32afd1c665d011d3b9
> added an external program to generate commands.c
>
> I think it causes a memory corruption which then shows itself in
> unpredictable ways.
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:21 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > I have noticed a crash that occurs occasionally on start up.
> > I have devised the following script
> >
> > echo "COUNTER is " $1 && ./denemo -a "(d-Quit)" && COUNTER=$1 && let
> COUNTER=COUNTER+1 &&  [ $COUNTER -le 500 ] && run_forever.sh $COUNTER fi
> >
> > You need to have this in the path, and to have the version of denemo you
> > are testing in the cwd.
> >
> > This runs Denemo up to 500 times. Run on recent versions of Denemo it
> > crashes after a certain number of iterations (I have seen it last for
> > 216, other times just a few dozen or less).
> >
> > The crash is either a segmentation fault, or sometimes an exit by the
> > memory allocator complaining of corruption. The call stack in this case
> > goes back to a scheme error callback.
> >
> > I have run the test on the latest release without it crashing (I had no
> > limit, and it got up between 600 and 1000 iterations and then my O/S
> > seized up - I was running the system monitor and it showed swap starting
> > to get used up, then most everything froze and I lost control over mouse
> > and keyboard - disk activity was continuing and I forced a shut down
> > after a while).
> >
> > With it happening so rarely this will be difficult to pin down to a
> > particular check-in. I think it goes back a couple of weeks or so at
> > least.
> >
> > If anyone cares to run the test please let me know what you find - I am
> > running gtk2 and guile-1.8.7
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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