Notifications cause Enlightenment to segfault

Reded · 2014-08-31 22:17:29

Hey all,

This is an issue that's been hitting my desktop for quite a while now. I've essentially put it off because I figured it's probably just due to me using the -git version of enlightenment.

The weird part is, my laptop doesn't suffer from this. Though the laptop is extremely old, and running 32-bit arch, and the desktop is running 64-bit.

So here's the issue, on the surface. I run Enlightenment with startx, and I'm enjoying it in all its beauty and functionality. But then, it crashes. For those who have never used Enlightenment before, when it crashes, you get a white box in the middle of the screen asking if you want to restart, or just logout to console. I usually just restart, and it all carries on working 'til the next crash. Obviously the crash was annoying, and I realised (By pure chance, pretty much), that it happens whenever I get a notification (From Pidgin, or Hexchat). To test my theory, I did notify-send "stuff", and hey, crash! and no errors from the terminal from notify-send. I then disabled the notifications module in E, and haven't had a crash since.

Obviously, I'd quite like my notifications back.

Paste of the logfile from running a quick gdb - I'm not sure what else to do from here, as the guide to debugging Enlightenment seems to show up the error in gdb backtrace, whereas I don't see an error in this:

http://paste.debian.net/118655

Anyone else having this issue? Where can I report this? I'm not sure if it's an E bug, as my laptop doesn't suffer (and I follow the -git branch on that too, keeping both machines about as up-to-date as each other).

Scimmia · 2014-09-01 01:04:44

If E crashes, it's probably a bug in E. You can report it to https://phab.enlightenment.org/.

I haven't seen this before, notifications work just fine on my 64-bit system.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-09-01 01:05:13)

Reded · 2014-09-01 01:27:58

Tomorrow I'll make sure to check it in a different DE just to make sure it's ONLY happening in Enlightenment.

Thanks for confirming it works with you though - I thought it was odd that it works on my laptop but not my desktop! And I will report it to the E guys soon!

progandy · 2014-09-01 07:36:32

You can also test if you get a crash when you run another notification daemon like dunst inside of enlightenment instead of the builtin module.

Reded · 2014-09-01 20:17:18

OK, on the dunst thing - If I run dunst from terminal, it errors and says "Name Lost. Is Another notification daemon running?" Even if I have the E-notification module disabled.

But then when I do notify-send "stuff", there is dunst giving me the notifications!

If I kill dunst off then enable the notifications module, dunst still pops up, so I tried uninstalling it, and I'm back to the good ol' crashing.

Another odd part is that last night, for a couple of hours, the notifications just randomly started working. Someone highlighted me in Hexchat, and there it was. Weird. I haven't updated since then (and I don't think I did before then either...) so not much on my system has changed.

E is a weird one! Time to see about reporting the bug to the E guys though.

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#1 2014-08-31 22:17:29

Notifications cause Enlightenment to segfault

#2 2014-09-01 01:04:44

Re: Notifications cause Enlightenment to segfault

#3 2014-09-01 01:27:58

Re: Notifications cause Enlightenment to segfault

#4 2014-09-01 07:36:32

Re: Notifications cause Enlightenment to segfault

#5 2014-09-01 20:17:18

Re: Notifications cause Enlightenment to segfault

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