Re: [dev] [wmii] Reproducible crashes with "dead" windows

Hi,

thanks for the reply Suraj.

> This error is caused by an incomplete status bar definition: there a
> status bar applet defined in your config which lacks a "label"
> subsection.

I looked into my config file and found the following status bar applets:

But why should a applet fail that late? I mean, it seems to work all the
time except such situations.

>> So I guess Sunakus ruby wmiirc is the problem?
>
> I don't think so :) wmiirc crashes generally do not cause wmii to
> crash. It is a serious matter if the entire WM crashes, leaving you
> at a virtual terminal.

Well, ok :-). I am not exactly left on a virtual terminal. More I am
thrown to gdm - the login screen. But I guess there is not much
difference in this case.

> I would recommend that you enable core dumps (ulimit -c unlimited),
> run wmii, cause the crash to occur, and send a GDB backtrace to this
> mailing list:
>
> gdb `which wmii` your_core_dump_file
> bt full

Thanks for the tip. If I have done it correctly I get no core file
generated. To enable core dumps I executed "ulimit -c unlimited" and
instead of starting "wmii" after login, I started the above gdb line.
Unfortunately without success, did I do something wrong?

But what I got is more log entries from "~/.wmii-hg/wmiirc.log":

E, [2010-02-17T02:08:29.687682 #31728] ERROR -- : Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE)
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb:115:in
`write'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb:115:in
`<<'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb:115:in
`send'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb:164:in
`talk'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb:472:in
`clunk'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb:260:in
`close'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb:217:in
`open'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/fs.rb:87:in `open'
/home/tom/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rumai-3.2.0/lib/rumai/fs.rb:103:in `each_line'

I have no idea if I overlooked those entries before or if they just
appeared.

Regards,
Tom
Received on Sat Feb 20 2010 - 21:21:45 UTC