Bug#685817: viking crashes a lot when used to display maps

Hi Rob, thank you for the hint to disable the status bar. It seems to improve the stability a lot, although it does not prevent viking completely from crashing. But that's maybe because I have to switch on the status bar from time to time to check coordinates. Regards, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#685817: viking crashes a lot when used to display maps

Hi Rob, thank you for the hint to disable the status bar. It seems to improve the stability a lot, although it does not prevent viking completely from crashing. But that's maybe because I have to switch on the status bar from time to time to check coordinates. in case this is fixable -

Bug#685817: viking crashes a lot when used to display maps

Hi Rob, thank you for the hint to disable the status bar. It seems to improve the stability a lot, although it does not prevent viking completely from crashing. But that's maybe because I have to switch on the status bar from time to time to check coordinates. in case this is fixable

Bug#685817: viking crashes a lot when used to display maps

Viking 1.3 received a small adjustment to try to improve the auto drawing stability! However it looks like there is still a contention between the background thread(s) and the main thread in updating the display - actually just in the statusbar readout, as the background thread(s) want to

Bug#685817: viking crashes a lot when used to display maps

Hi Bernd Unfortunately they are not that useful as you did not have the according -dbg packages installed. That would be at least libglib2.0-0-dbg and libgtk2.0-0-dbg. Here's a crash log and backtrace with the two debug libraries installed. Regards, Uwe $ gdb /usr/bin/viking GNU gdb

Bug#685817: viking crashes a lot when used to display maps

Hi, thanks for the bugreport and the backtraces. Unfortunately they are not that useful as you did not have the according -dbg packages installed. That would be at least libglib2.0-0-dbg and libgtk2.0-0-dbg. After installing please try to get a new backtrace again. Maybe then its more obvious

Bug#685817: viking crashes a lot when used to display maps

Package: viking Version: 1.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, since I have upgraded from squeeze to wheezy viking crashes a lot when used to display maps. To reproduce the crash I can start viking, add a new map layer (e.g. Mapnik), activate autodownload maps, then repeatedly scroll the