Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2684
gnomepager_applet drops core
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:50 EDT
Hi If this bug is more of a GNOME bug than a RH6.0 bug feel free to forward to the GNOME crew gnomepager_applet reliably drops core if I exit my GNOME session with crtl-alt-backspace rather than the logout option. The crash seems to be failure to ignore SIGIOT, which is sent when X dies from under the applet? Here is a backtrace of the core dump (gdb) bt #0 0x40418111 in __kill () #1 0x40417d66 in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27 #2 0x40419447 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88 #3 0x4008a671 in g_logv () #4 0x4008a722 in g_log () #5 0x402e2ae5 in gdk_x_io_error () #6 0x4034ba5d in _XIOError () #7 0x4034959e in _XRead () #8 0x40349f82 in _XReply () #9 0x4033563d in XGetInputFocus () #10 0x804e9f0 in task_get_info ()#17 0x400882c6 in g_main_dispatch () #11 0x804e646 in cb_task_change () #12 0x804e9a9 in cb_filter_intercept () #13 0x402ed8ae in gdk_event_apply_filters () #14 0x402ed9be in gdk_event_translate () #15 0x402ee8b7 in gdk_events_queue () #16 0x402eea94 in gdk_event_dispatch () #17 0x400882c6 in g_main_dispatch () #18 0x40088801 in g_main_iterate () #19 0x40088979 in g_main_run () #20 0x4024af3a in gtk_main () #21 0x4001afa9 in applet_widget_gtk_main () #22 0x804fb32 in main ()
Oh, "gnomecc" (the GNOME control centre) appears to do this too. Maybe it is a fairly generic bug?
This is a known problem. Essentially the fix is "don't do that". Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not a proper way to exit GNOME. Other than aesthetics, though, these cores are harmless.
This should be fixed in 6.1. (We now don't drop core when the connection to the X server is killed unexpectedly)