Re: gtk+ applications crash when filechooser opened

[Carl Michal <michal@physics.ubc.ca>]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Geoffrey Yerem wrote:

> On 1/2/2014 12:30 PM, Carl Michal wrote:
>>  On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Geoffrey Yerem wrote:
>> 
>> >  Hello,
>> >      Has anyone found a resolution to this problem?  I've been
>> >  searching for weeks now and haven't been able to find a solution.  My
>> >  Cygwin installation has been broken ever since.
>>
>>  I spent a little time trying to debug this a few weeks ago. I did
>>  confirm that the problem doesn't occur on x86_64. On x86 though, it
>>  looks like a Heisenbug - it behaved differently when running in the
>>  debugger, and differently depending on how you hit it in the debugger.
>>  To me it looked like it was buried somewhere in the threading library,
>>  but I didn't really get far enough along to say.
>>
>>  Carl
>
> Hi Carl,
> 	For some reason this problem sounds like something I had to fix 
> before, but I can't really recall anything.  I was hoping it was related to a 
> bad configuration file somewhere that I could refresh.
>
> 	Right now it sounds like it's something that was upgraded recently, 
> but I have no way to track that down.  Do you think it's a bug in GTK+, or 
> another library?
>
> 	If there were any kind of workaround, that would help me immensely.
>
> Geoffrey
>

I think this is in pthreads, or glib. I don't think the problem is in gtk+ 
itself.

I haven't found any way around it yet except to use a 64-bit machine.

Carl

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