Re: GNU G-Golf 0.8.0-rc-3 available for testing

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

Thank you for the work, David.  I have a question; how do you debug when
Guile crashes to terminal printing “Segmentation fault”`?

The long story so far:

I want to develop a GTK app with G-Golf.  I try to run it with
GNU Guix [1] (not Debian like you do, as far as I remember), because now
the Guix’ hard-working gnome team have added the needed version of
gobject-introspection to Guix.

I have cloned the g-golf repository:

$ cd ~/src
$ git clone 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/g-golf.git'

To create the app’s basic structure, I run Guile Hall [2]:

$ guix shell guile-hall
$ hall init --author "Florian Pelz" myapp --execute

This gives me a guix.scm file, where I add g-golf and gtk to the inputs:

(use-modules (gnu packages gtk)
             (gnu packages guile)
             (gnu packages guile-xyz)
             (guix transformations))
(package
  (name "myapp")
  […]
  (inputs (list guile-3.0 gtk
                ((options->transformation
                  '((with-commit . "guile-g-golf=v0.8.0-rc-3")))
                 guile-g-golf)))
  […])


Now I run:

$ guix shell
$ ~/src/g-golf/examples/gtk-4/hello-world.scm

It tells me dbus-launch must be running, so I add a d-bus service to my
Guix Home configuration.

(use-modules (gnu home services desktop))
(home-environment
  (packages […])
  (services
   (list (service home-dbus-service-type)
         […])))

I run again the commands

$ guix shell
$ ~/src/g-golf/examples/gtk-4/hello-world.scm

successfully; a window is shown, though not responsive, with plenty of errors.

(hello-world.scm:12627): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:59:50.617: Unable to acquire the address of the accessibility bus: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files. If you are attempting to run GTK without a11y support, GTK_A11Y should be set to 'none'.

(hello-world.scm:12627): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 23:59:51.067: cannot register existing type 'GdkPixbuf'  

(hello-world.scm:12627): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 23:59:51.067: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(hello-world.scm:12627): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 23:59:51.067: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(hello-world.scm:12627): GLib-CRITICAL **: 23:59:51.068: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed      



However, when I now run:

$ ~/src/g-golf/examples/gtk-4/drawing-widget.scm

it crashes, displaying only “Segmentation fault”.  Same with

$ ~/src/g-golf/examples/gtk-4/peg-solitaire.scm

I run and read

$ info "(guile)Catching Exceptions"

but the techniques from there that I tried do not catch the segmentation
fault.  How did you go about debugging such errors?  Because I suppose
you must have been having such debugging sessions too.

Regards,
Florian

[1] GNU Guix: https://guix.gnu.org/
[2] Guix’ guile-hall package from
https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-hall