xfdesktop crashin with glibc error

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Just use --enable-debug=yes, not --enable-debug=full.  Warnings should
be ignored.

Kim Klinkhamer wrote:
> OK,
> 
> Didn't have debug turned on.
> 
> Tried to run the 4.4rc2 installer, this time with optimisations off and
> debug on but it fails with
> 
> DPIC -o .libs/libxfcegui4_la-netk-workspace.o
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> netk-window-action-menu.c: In function 'item_activated_callback':
> netk-window-action-menu.c:102: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
> different size
> netk-window-action-menu.c: In function 'sendto_item_activated':
> netk-window-action-menu.c:182: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
> different size
> netk-window-action-menu.c: In function 'create_sendto_menu':
> netk-window-action-menu.c:227: warning: cast to pointer from integer of
> different size
> gmake[3]: *** [libxfcegui4_la-netk-window-action-menu.lo] Error 1
> gmake[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.. -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share\"
> -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"libxfcegui4\"
> -DPACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DPREFIX=\"/usr\"
> -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0
> -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
> -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/xfce4
> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
> -I/usr/include/startup-notification-1.0 -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror
> -Wall -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -MT libxfcegui4_la-netk-workspace.lo
> -MD -MP -MF .deps/libxfcegui4_la-netk-workspace.Tpo -c netk-workspace.c
> -o libxfcegui4_la-netk-workspace.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/xfce4-4.4RC2-installer/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4'
> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/xfce4-4.4RC2-installer/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/xfce4-4.4RC2-installer/libxfcegui4'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> !! Failed to build libxfcegui4, see the errors above
> !! for details on the problem.
> 
> 
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>>>> bjt23 at cornell.edu 11/11/06 5:34 PM >>>
> 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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