[Thunar-dev] Experimental Thunar Trash tarball

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 7/26/2006 3:10 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Björn Martensen wrote:
>>>> However, the other two crashes I reported that occur in the treeview
>>>> sidepane are still present.
>>> If the backtrace shows g_slice_alloc() or g_slice_alloc0(), try set the
>>> environment variable G_SLICE to always-malloc and enable malloc()
>>> debugging (man malloc should provide the required info for your libc
>>> implementation), and check if you are still able to reproduce the crash.
>> That helped. No crashes anymore.
>> I set G_SLICE=always-malloc and MALLOC_CHECK_=1 and after exiting thunar
>> and doing the stuff that caused crashes before I now get
>>
>> *** glibc detected *** thunar: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08346b28 ***
>> *** glibc detected *** thunar: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08348fd0 ***
>> *** glibc detected *** thunar: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0834a568 ***
> 
> Ah, good, now you just need to make free() crash so we find out where
> the invalid pointers come from.

Björn,

You can set MALLOC_CHECK_=2 instead which will cause free() to abort()
on invalid pointers, and run thunar through gdb:

$ gdb Thunar
[gdb stuff...]
(gdb) run
[... do something to make it crash ...]
(gdb) bt
[... get your backtrace ...]
(gdb) quit

	-brian

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