General inestability running gtk applications...

[Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <jrhbcn@gmail.com>]

Hi debian users,

  Recently I'm experiencing some weird problems running GTK
applications on my debian sid box. Specially applications such as
epiphany, liferea and synaptic crash randomly after some minutes of
use (and they crash more often if the machine is on heavy load such as
compiling the kernel).

I'm trying to debug them and see what might be the cause so I'm trying
to run epiphany under gdb but every time it crashes before even
showing the window....

This is the output of gdb:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIG33, Real-time event 33.
[Switching to Thread -1236362320 (LWP 14588)]
0xb735a5a9 in poll () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0xb735a5a9 in poll () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0xb7e127e2 in PR_Poll () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
#2  0xb6aab206 in NSGetModule () from /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libnecko.so
#3  0xb6aab9db in NSGetModule () from /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libnecko.so
#4  0xb7eaa4f4 in nsThread::Main () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so
#5  0xb7e140e5 in PR_Select () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
#6  0xb7b64ccd in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#7  0xb7364b0e in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Note that this only happened when running epiphany inside gdb, when I
run it normally it starts OK and crashes after some minutes of use...

The weird thing is that when I try to run 'gdb epiphany' with the
libc6-dbg libraries (I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/debug) it does
not crash.... :-?

I've tried several things (changing the gnome theme, using a different
kernel or libc version) but the problem persists.

Has anyone experienced the same problems? Does the epiphany browser
crash when running inside gdb also?



regards,


-- 
Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <jrhbcn@gmail.com>