From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26832 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2014 00:51:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26820 invoked by uid 89); 3 Jan 2014 00:51:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: beta.phas.ubc.ca Received: from beta.phas.ubc.ca (HELO beta.phas.ubc.ca) (142.103.236.75) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:51:28 +0000 Received: from spider.phas.ubc.ca (spider.phas.ubc.ca [142.103.235.177]) (authenticated bits=0) by beta.phas.ubc.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s030pQSp025088 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:51:26 -0800 Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:51:00 -0000 From: Carl Michal To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gtk+ applications crash when filechooser opened In-Reply-To: <52C5A445.4090208@hagertechnologies.com> Message-ID: References: <52C58FE5.5080001@hagertechnologies.com> <52C5A445.4090208@hagertechnologies.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/