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Re: gnome-panel sometimes freezes during aptitude upgrade



On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> So you think it crashed instead of getting an external signal? Why would
> it crash inside malloc?

Just guessing, but the backtrace looks like gnome-panel gets a SIGSEGV
due to previous heap corruption, and libgnomeui_segv_handle() calls
functions (in this case free()) that are not safe to be called from
signal context.

If you can reproduce the problem, you could try to launch gnome-panel
with --disable-crash-dialog and see what happens. If my guessing is
right it should die instead of freezing.

Gabor

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