Sun Aug 15 07:25:52 2010: Request 59916 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by REHSACK
Queue: Wx
Subject: Wx makes perl dumping core when no DISPLAY set
Broken in: 0.9701, 0.9702
Severity: Critical
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59916 >
On Thu Aug 12 16:53:02 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> Jens Rehsack via RT wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > On Sun Aug 01 06:35:07 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> >> Jens Rehsack via RT wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> I've seen RT#41716 - and this RT is more or less the same report with
> >>> another background.
> >>>
> >>> We (pkgsrc) package some perl modules using Wx - at least Padre
and some
> >>> plugins. All these package fail the bulk builds with perl core dumps,
> >>> because of the Wx requirement.
> >> If you do a simple 'use Wx', does it crash that way? Is there a
> >> simple test case for the bug?
> >
> > $ env DISPLAY= perl -e 'use Wx qw(:allclasses); print wxYES, "\n";';
> > Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> > $ env DISPLAY= perl -e 'use Wx qw(wxYES); print wxYES, "\n";';Error:
> > Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
> > 2
> >
> > $ env DISPLAY= perl -Mblib t/01_load.t
> > 1..6
> > Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
> > Use of uninitialized value $Wx::_universal in concatenation (.) or
> > string at /usr/pkgsrc/x11/p5-Wx/work/Wx-0.9702/blib/lib/Wx.pm line 160.
> > Use of uninitialized value $Wx::_static in concatenation (.) or string
> > at /usr/pkgsrc/x11/p5-Wx/work/Wx-0.9702/blib/lib/Wx.pm line 161.
> > ok 1 - use Wx;
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> > How much simpler should the test case be?
>
> This simple... from the first bug report I got the impression that
> the problem occurred in the Padre test suite.
My fault - there I detected it first time. I'm a bit EHEADEVERYWHERE at
the moment, sorry.
> > I'm sorry, I'm no GUI developer, neither using Wx nor any other graphics
> > library. I can't do more than showing you with your own code, where it
> > fails.
>
> I am not using NetBSD either, and I might say the same thing :-)
Again my fault. It crashes on MacOS X (X11 environment), Ubuntu and
Solaris, too.
It's not related to NetBSD.
> anyway, I'm currently installing NetBSD in a VM. I'm not sure when I
> will be able to look into the crash; keep in mind thath Wx is never
> going to pass any tests with display unset, the best I can do is to make
> it fail without a crash.
If it wouldn't dump core on 'use Wx qw(:allclasses);', would be enough.
I don't want request a magical fix what might bring Wx working without
an output device, but a core dump leads me to the assumption, that
something is going heavily wrong.
Cheers,
Jens
