Description of problem: Attachment 381817 [details] to bug 552651 shows a backtrace of a PyGTK app. This backtrace contains numerous python backtraces from gdb itself, from inside the GObject prettyprinter: See e.g. frame #7 in that backtrace: #7 0x0000003c6c4099b9 in panel_applet_control_bound ( control=<value optimized out>, applet=Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 72, in to_string name = g_type_name_from_instance (self.val) File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 59, in g_type_name_from_instance name = g_type_to_name (gtype) File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 26, in g_type_to_name return glib.g_quark_to_string (typenode["qname"]) File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/glib.py", line 13, in g_quark_to_string val = read_global_var ("g_quarks") File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/glib.py", line 5, in read_global_var return gdb.selected_frame().read_var(symname) ValueError: variable 'g_quarks' not found ) at panel-applet.c:1394 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "panel_applet_control_bound" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): (Luke Macken's machine; CCing him): glib2-devel-2.22.3-2.fc12.x86_64 gdb-7.0-13.fc12.x86_64 python-2.6.2-2.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Not sure, but I'm fairly sure I've seen this in other ABRT reports for other PyGTK apps.
Alex, any idea ?
Is the glib debuginfo installed? The python code tries to look up the g_quarks global inside glib, but if debug symbols are missing i guess that may fail. We should make the python code handle the symbol lookup failing in a nicer way.
Dave ?
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