[Lumiera] crash when closing the Application

Christian Thaeter ct at pipapo.org
Fri Jun 19 01:36:18 CEST 2009


Ichthyostega wrote:
> 
> Hi fellow Lumi hackers,
> 
> because of Tom Judge's presentation on Saturday I've investigated the crash on
> closing the Application. Obviously there is one cause for crashes I am unable
> to fix: the glib dispatcher. This is a dummy mockup player, but for the real
> thing we should try to get the output pushed to display synchronously (and
> not forwarded to the GTK main thread).
> 
> The most I could do for that is to sync on the "tick thread" termination and
> then add a wait of 200ms to allow GTK to dispatch the last output. But my
> investigation showed me another bug in threads.c, which was the cause for
> crashes on shutdown, whenever more then one thread was started.
> 
> May I ask you to rebuild master and try out if this indeed resolved some
> of the crashes?

The crashes while playing and moving windows are fixed as it looks.
Valgrind still reveals that nobug is barfing on some unitialized memory,
 I suspect there is some singleton startup/teardown problem still.
When closing the app that yields in a segv. but ok for the presentation
now I think.

	Christian



> 
> Cheers
> Hermann
> 
> 
> 
> 
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