Bug 552654 - "ValueError: variable 'g_quarks' not found" exceptions raised by GObject gdb-archer pretty-printer
Summary: "ValueError: variable 'g_quarks' not found" exceptions raised by GObject gdb-...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glib2
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-05 19:47 UTC by Dave Malcolm
Modified: 2010-12-04 00:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-04 00:49:51 UTC
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Description Dave Malcolm 2010-01-05 19:47:01 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2010-01-06 04:09:13 UTC
Alex, any idea ?

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2010-01-11 11:29:10 UTC
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.

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2010-02-13 04:09:58 UTC
Dave ?

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 00:49:51 UTC
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