xfdesktop keeps dying

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 11/26/04 22:45, Bob Snyder wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
> >On 11/26/04 19:10, Bob Snyder wrote:
> >
> >>After that it appears to hang up. That is, I don't get a command prompt 
> >>back until I hit <ctl> C.
> >
> >could you run xfdesktop in gdb, and then, when it appears to lock up, hit
> >ctrl+c, and then type bt<enter> to get a stack trace from where it's
> >hanging?  i've seen this in one other situation, but i'd thought it was
> >fixed for rc1 (maybe even for beta2; i don't recall exactly).  also, you
> >*are* running 4.2rc1, right?  (or newer CVS)
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Yes, I'm running 4.2RC1 which I installed with Benedikt's graphic installer.
> 
> Here's the stack trace:
> 
> Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> 0x406bc9f2 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x406bc9f2 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x40590256 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #2  0x4058f6e0 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #3  0x4058fd91 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0x4016cf23 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #5  0x804d5c5 in ?? ()
> #6  0x405fe91e in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb)

hmm, unfortunately this isn't useful at all =/.  it might help to compile
libxfce4util, libxfcegui4, and xfdesktop passing --enable-debug=yes to
configure.  i'm not sure if benny's installer gives this as an option
though.

> Also, fwiw, while it's running, along with the other messages I listed 
> before, when running in gdb I also get lots of these:
> 
> Error while reading shared library symbols:
> Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.

hmm, not sure.  it probably just is telling you it can't read symbols
out of the lib because they're stripped and/or don't have debugging info
in them.  or something.

	-brian