On Dec 31, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Cedric BAIL wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:53 PM, mh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Dec 31, 2011, at 4:54 AM, Cedric BAIL wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:17 AM, mh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 10:54 PM, mh wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 10:39 PM, mh wrote:
>>>>>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 10:25 PM, P Purkayastha wrote:
>>>>>>> On Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:33:43 AM UTC+8, mh wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:28 PM, mh wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Cedric BAIL wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> What theme is it? A good deal of older themes no longer work with
>>>>>>>> current
>>>>>>>>>>> Enlightenment revisions. They need to be manually updated to the new
>>>>>>>>>>> formatting.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> They should never crash E like that. If it's due to a theme, please
>>>>>>>>>> send it to me.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'll try downloading and importing a theme that I have working 
>>>>>>>>> already.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:24 PM, mh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> This is what I'm seeing now: from E, go to the themes setting box. 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>>>>> several themes there, can pick and change them without problem.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> But if I click on "Import" to import a theme I've downloaded, all 
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> windows freeze. The cursor can still move, but can't select 
>>>>>>>>>>>> anything.
>>>>>>>> There
>>>>>>>>>>>> are many, many errors in the vt that I ran startx from. Caught as
>>>>>>>> many as I
>>>>>>>>>>>> could in the attachment. If I ctl-c in the vt I ran startx from, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> one
>>>>>>>>>>>> with the error messages, it kills X with the message at the bottom 
>>>>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> attachment.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> This is v.666703. Any ideas?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> When E froze could you connect gdb to it and give us the backtrace ?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Cedric BAIL
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'll look at that and see if I can get a bt. It's a very repeatable
>>>>>>>> process to failure.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> mike
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Question: Do I just need to compile e with debug symbols, or all the 
>>>>>>>> EFLs?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> All of EFL and e.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ok, got everything recompiled with debugging symbols, started X, 
>>>>>> exported E_START and DISPLAY, gdb enlightenment, run. Changed to X 
>>>>>> session and tried to import a theme and it froze as I expected. Back to 
>>>>>> vt2 where gdb is running. I tried to capture what was on vt2 with cat 
>>>>>> /dev/vcs2 > e-crash, but that only captured part of the backtrace. How 
>>>>>> do I capture all the output from the gdb session?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> oh never mind, I got it. I should look before I speak :(
>>>>> 
>>>>> (gdb) record
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> no, I think it's (gdb) set logging file file-name, and then (gdb) set 
>>>> logging on.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm stuck. I think I should be able to get the backtrace for this with, 
>>>> doing everything as root:
>>>> 
>>>> Xorg -ac :1 &
>>>> export E_START=1
>>>> export DISPLAY=:1
>>>> gdb enlightenment - no breakpoints?
>>>> 
>>>> then, in the gdb session,
>>>> 
>>>> set logging file log-file.txt
>>>> set logging on
>>>> r
>>>> 
>>>> But this doesn't start enlightenment. I'm doing something wrong, don't 
>>>> know what.
>>> 
>>> You need to run enlightenment_start instead.
>>> --
>>> Cedric BAIL
>> 
>> Tried enlightenment_start, but that didn't work either. Don't know, I must 
>> be doing something wrong. (E does start normally with startx.) I can just 
>> copy themes into the ~/.e/e/themes directory and then I can select them from 
>> the settings-themes panel so maybe I should just do that.
> 
> You know, you can give a PID to gdb, so once your e17 is frozen, just
> gdb /usr/bin/enlightenment PID and you will be able to get a backtrace
> that way.
> -- 
> Cedric BAIL

I updated to 66761 just now, and this problem is no more. It's bleedin' 
demised. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's gone to meet it's maker.  It's 
an ex-problem. Thank you to whomever I need to thank!

mike





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