Description of problem: When using Gimmie, either the stand alone panel or the applet, it often crashes when opening a new window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.2.8-1 How reproducible: Usually it takes only a few clicks to crash Gimmie. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Gimmie 2. Click one of the buttons 3. If the window opens without crashing, click another button Actual results: Bug Buddy opens and shows some old xerrors, and the terminal says: *** Reloading TopicRunningList: Opened Documents *** Reloading TopicRunningList: Active Conversations *** Reloading TopicRunningList: Computer Running Source *** Setting source: <RecentAggregate object at 0xa6c1b6c (gimmie_base+Item at 0xa839580)> python: Modules/gcmodule.c:276: visit_decref: Assertion `gc->gc.gc_refs != 0' failed. 760b52b7-a97e-d1a7-55bcf059-7443748e is dumped Expected results: Well, I expected the windows to open without Gimmie crashing. :) Additional info:
I'm seeing the same thing; was seeing it with 0.2.7 on f8 as well, but not 0.2.7 on f7! Seems to happen 100% of the time with 'library'; maybe 50% of the time with the other buttons ('linux', 'program', and 'people'.) BTW, for triage purposes, this bug should be a different priority than 'low', since it basically makes the app unusable.
please take a look at bug 408341 since this seems to be caused by a corrupted python garbage collector
Yeah, looks like a dup of 404911 (or vice-versa.) But that at least seems to have some python people's attention, so this should be marked a dup. Lyle? (I can't do it, don't have enough perms.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 404911 ***
Hi all, this bug was closed as duplicate of 404911, but python people claim it's not their fault, so they won't fix it. Is anyone able to run Gimmie in Fedora 8? Since I upgraded to F8 Gimmie is reduced to a task switcher, because it crashes for almost any other task. It's still a better task switcher than the one in the Gnome panel, but I begin to miss the rest of Gimmie. Gratefully, Lyle
I suppose this is the dup. of bug 171809.
The problem persists in Fedora 9 Beta.
I believe this problem comes from python plugins which are being loaded by gimmie (and also mayanna), such as python-gdata, python-libgmail, gnome-python2-gnomedesktop, gnome-python2-libwnck or evolution-python (those are dependencies for gimmie & mayanna). But I'm not sure which package is the real culprits - high possibility is maybe gnome-python2-gnomedesktop) Maybe the packaging process of those packages causes this problem, because based on my observation in compiling gimmie & mayanna, other distro (ubuntu, opensuse etc.) don't have this problem.
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