xftaskbar4 seg faults

Net Llama! netllama at linux-sxs.org
Tue Jun 10 16:22:12 CEST 2003


On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Danny wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Am Mon, 2003-06-09 um 22.35 schrieb Net Llama!:
> > Hello,
> > First i want to commend all of the developers on an excellent Beta
> > release.  Now, i need to ask for help about a problem i'm having.  I
> > grabbed all of the official beta SRPMs and rebuilt them from source.
> > Everything appears to work except for the taskbar which segfaults.  I'm
> > not sure where to begin troubleshooting this, as there are no errors, it
> > just fails to start, and if i try to start it manually, it fails with a
> > 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)' error.
>
> Humm... please start:
> gdb xftaskbar4
>
> then type run(enter), wait until it segfaults, type bt(enter) and give
> us the output ;)
>
> (if it complains about missing symbols and doesnt tell about functions'
> names then you have to put --enable-debug=full in the spec file and
> recompile... if thats the case, I'll tell details ^^)

xfce-utils won't build when i set --enable-debug=full:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
xftaskbar.c: In function `message_new':
xftaskbar.c:387: warning: int format, glong arg (arg 2)
xftaskbar.c:387: warning: int format, glong arg (arg 4)
make[3]: *** [xftaskbar4-xftaskbar.o] Error 1

> > I was successful with the SRPMs on a different box.
>
> weiiird...
> Any obvious difference between the two boxes?

yea, the one that works is a Linux From Scratch system, then one that
fails is a hacked up Redhat box.

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