Hi Sergey, I really aprecciate what you are going to do. Unfortunately, I have little free time right now, so I doubt I will be able to help with this until later.
With that said: 1 - I could make crash-digger work for a while without errors. When I say "for a while" I mean that I interrupted it manually, because it was just for testing. Cody knows about this. I would offer my system to run crash-digger fully (to see if it works), but I have very little bandwidth (256 kbps) in the town I am right now. I may be able to do this in roughly a month. 2 - No idea about the CMake thing. However, I noticed something about Electric Fence. DUMA (http://duma.sourceforge.net/) allows dynamic linking without special compiling (if I understood correctly) by running "export LD_PRELOAD=libduma.so.0.0" before. Maybe Electric Fence may be able to run in this way too? Cheers 2013/7/22, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <[email protected]>: > Hey guys, > > So I didn't depart today as it was planned, so I'm up to a little > hackathon. > > Files has annoyingly crashy for months, and it still IS annoyingly crashy. > I can't order copying a large amount of data and be sure that it gets > copied before Files decides it's time to crash. > > And we don't have Apport crash retracer working anymore ( > http://pad.lv/1191366) and I'm pretty sure the segfault happens not where > the original bug is, but much later on. > > To track down the original bug(s) causing that I'm going to compile it with > ElectricFence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Fence), run it in GDB, > see where it segfaults and post backtraces. > > What I need help with is: > > First, I have to add "-lefence" to the C compiler parameters in CMake and I > have little idea how to do that. This will make Files segfault exactly > where the original corruption happens and ease debugging greatly. It's much > more fun than trying to track down the crashes in regular builds! > > Second, I totally suck at OOP so I probably won't be able to fix the > crashes even if I track them down. Anyone up for joining me in fixing this? > > -- > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff > OS architect @ elementary > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
