xfdesktop crashin with glibc error

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Kim Klinkhamer wrote:
> OK,
> 
> Bit of a noob, can you give me instructions on how to do the gdb thing?
> 
> I can do the strace xfdektop one.

An strace is most likely useless.  See [1] for gdb instructions.  (Also
if anything about the instructions are unclear to you, please let me
know, as I'd like to make the document as user-friendly as possible).

[1] http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4-debug

	-brian

>>>> bjt23 at cornell.edu 11/11/06 5:12 PM >>>
> Kim Klinkhamer wrote:
>> Just upgraded to a 64bit box (clean linux install), and can't get
>> xfdesktop to run.
>>
>> I've tried 4.4rc2 and 4.3.99 and both give the following error when
>> starting xfdesktop
>>
>> GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 4294967296 bytes
>> aborting...
>>
>> GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 4294967296 bytes
>> aborting...
>> Aborted
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> It's possible (though unlikely) I'm doing something that's not 64-bit
> clean in xfdesktop.  Please file a bug report on bugzilla.xfce.org, and
> provide a gdb backtrace of where the crash is occurring, using a debug
> build of xfdesktop (and preferably of libxfcegui4 and libxfce4util as
> well).
> 
>         -brian
> 
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