Icecat 52 crashing in file dialogues

Icecat 52 crashing in file dialogues

[ng0]

Hi,

has someone else experienced crashes since the icecat update?

My system state isn't that old, but a week older than my profile state.
File dialgues (save file) cause random crashes, Open file dialogues (change profile picture, etc) cause reproducible crashes all the time.
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Re: Icecat 52 crashing in file dialogues

[Clément Lassieur]

ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> has someone else experienced crashes since the icecat update?
>
> My system state isn't that old, but a week older than my profile state.
> File dialgues (save file) cause random crashes, Open file dialogues (change profile picture, etc) cause reproducible crashes all the time.

Yes, I did experience the same thing.  I wrote a small patch that fixes
it, see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26593.

I'm not a GTK expert, there might be a cleaner way deal with
XDG_DATA_DIRS.

Re: Icecat 52 crashing in file dialogues

[Mark H Weaver]

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> has someone else experienced crashes since the icecat update?
>>
>> My system state isn't that old, but a week older than my profile state.
>> File dialgues (save file) cause random crashes, Open file dialogues (change profile picture, etc) cause reproducible crashes all the time.
>
> Yes, I did experience the same thing.  I wrote a small patch that fixes
> it, see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26593.

Thank you!  For now, please push your patch.  (I would reply to the bug
report, but it hasn't yet been delivered to me.)

> I'm not a GTK expert, there might be a cleaner way deal with
> XDG_DATA_DIRS.

Perhaps, but if so we can fix it up later.  For now, it's important to
have a usable browser, and your approach is the one that has been
tested.

     Thanks!
       Mark

Re: Icecat 52 crashing in file dialogues

[Clément Lassieur]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
>
>> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> has someone else experienced crashes since the icecat update?
>>>
>>> My system state isn't that old, but a week older than my profile state.
>>> File dialgues (save file) cause random crashes, Open file dialogues (change profile picture, etc) cause reproducible crashes all the time.
>>
>> Yes, I did experience the same thing.  I wrote a small patch that fixes
>> it, see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26593.
>
> Thank you!  For now, please push your patch.  (I would reply to the bug
> report, but it hasn't yet been delivered to me.)

Ok, pushed!

>> I'm not a GTK expert, there might be a cleaner way deal with
>> XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> Perhaps, but if so we can fix it up later.  For now, it's important to
> have a usable browser, and your approach is the one that has been
> tested.
>
>      Thanks!
>        Mark

Re: Icecat 52 crashing in file dialogues

[Pjotr Prins]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote:
> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > has someone else experienced crashes since the icecat update?
> >
> > My system state isn't that old, but a week older than my profile state.
> > File dialgues (save file) cause random crashes, Open file dialogues (change profile picture, etc) cause reproducible crashes all the time.
> 
> Yes, I did experience the same thing.  I wrote a small patch that fixes
> it, see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26593.
> 
> I'm not a GTK expert, there might be a cleaner way deal with
> XDG_DATA_DIRS.

Looks like we can use similar wrappers for all GTK tools, including
gnumeric, geeqie, gnucash etc. Those are the ones that crash on me
without XDG_DATA_DIRS. At this point I use alias on my Debian based
system:

alias gnucash='env XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share gnucash'
alias gnumeric='env XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share gnumeric'


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Re: Icecat 52 crashing in file dialogues

[Clément Lassieur]

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote:
>> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > has someone else experienced crashes since the icecat update?
>> >
>> > My system state isn't that old, but a week older than my profile state.
>> > File dialgues (save file) cause random crashes, Open file dialogues (change profile picture, etc) cause reproducible crashes all the time.
>> 
>> Yes, I did experience the same thing.  I wrote a small patch that fixes
>> it, see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26593.
>> 
>> I'm not a GTK expert, there might be a cleaner way deal with
>> XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> Looks like we can use similar wrappers for all GTK tools, including
> gnumeric, geeqie, gnucash etc. Those are the ones that crash on me
> without XDG_DATA_DIRS. At this point I use alias on my Debian based
> system:
>
> alias gnucash='env XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share gnucash'
> alias gnumeric='env XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share gnumeric'

There is also a 'glib-or-gtk-build-system' (extension of
'gnu-build-system'), that does some more advanced wrapping.  For some
reason, I couldn't get it to work, but if that is the cleaner way, I
could try to dig into it.