gtk+ applications crash when filechooser opened
Carl Michal
michal@physics.ubc.ca
Fri Jan 3 00:51:00 GMT 2014
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Geoffrey Yerem wrote:
> On 1/2/2014 12:30 PM, Carl Michal wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Geoffrey Yerem wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> > Has anyone found a resolution to this problem? I've been
>> > searching for weeks now and haven't been able to find a solution. My
>> > Cygwin installation has been broken ever since.
>>
>> I spent a little time trying to debug this a few weeks ago. I did
>> confirm that the problem doesn't occur on x86_64. On x86 though, it
>> looks like a Heisenbug - it behaved differently when running in the
>> debugger, and differently depending on how you hit it in the debugger.
>> To me it looked like it was buried somewhere in the threading library,
>> but I didn't really get far enough along to say.
>>
>> Carl
>
> Hi Carl,
> For some reason this problem sounds like something I had to fix
> before, but I can't really recall anything. I was hoping it was related to a
> bad configuration file somewhere that I could refresh.
>
> Right now it sounds like it's something that was upgraded recently,
> but I have no way to track that down. Do you think it's a bug in GTK+, or
> another library?
>
> If there were any kind of workaround, that would help me immensely.
>
> Geoffrey
>
I think this is in pthreads, or glib. I don't think the problem is in gtk+
itself.
I haven't found any way around it yet except to use a 64-bit machine.
Carl
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