[kde-solaris] Re: KDE 3.2 CVS: starting konqueror via dcop -> core

[Laurent Blume]

It seems I've got the very same problem, on Solaris 9 x86, KDE 3.2.1, 
XFree86 4.4.0, GCC 3.3.3, and so on.

Any patch/workaround/bug number I could follow?

That's too bad, because it's a small problem, but since it's the only 
one I've got with KDE 3.2.1, it's standing out :-)

Overall, the easiest KDE release to build on Solaris (using GCC) I've 
seen so far, as well as the fastest and best looking!

Laurent

Guenter Feldmann wrote:
> On 17 February 2004 16:23, Torsten Kasch wrote:
> 
>>* It looks very much like an OS bug (triggered by Qt, probably) to me, 
>>  although I've got not evidence right now.
> 
> 
> It is 'kdeinit' which crashes *before* it execs konqueror. It crashes in
> the library function free() called from the ximcp.so.2, a pluging of XFree86:
> 
> 	gdb  /usr/local/KDE/3.2.0/bin/kdeinit  core
> 	[ ... ]
> 	Loaded symbols for /usr/local/X11/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
> 	#0  0xfd3e0db8 in free_unlocked () from /usr/lib/libmalloc.so.1
> 	(gdb) where
> 	#0  0xfd3e0db8 in free_unlocked () from /usr/lib/libmalloc.so.1
> 	#1  0xfd3e0ca0 in free () from /usr/lib/libmalloc.so.1
> 	#2  0xfd3a094c in _XimCheckIfLocalProcessing ()
> 	  	 from /usr/local/X11/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
> 	#3  0xfd3a0258 in _XimOpenIM ()
> 		  from /usr/local/X11/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2
> 	(gdb)
> 
> The code in imLcIm.c looks as follows:
> 		
> 		name = _XlcFileName(im->core.lcd, COMPOSE_FILE);
> 		if (name != (char *)NULL) {
> 			fp = _XFopenFile (name, "r");
> 			Xfree(name);				<--- crash
> 
> It is obviously correct. When I remove this Xfree call, the program crashes
> in another free().
> 
> To me it looks like the heap structure gets corrupted in another part of
> the program and the crash in free() is a late effect.
> 
> Could any one explain what makes starting of konqueror so unique for
> kdeinit? All the other programs get started by kdeinit without problems.
> 


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