[gentoo-user] Strange sunbird segfault

[gentoo-user] Strange sunbird segfault

[Jim Cunning]

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I normally keep mozilla-sunbird calendar running on my desktop.  Occasionally, 
I find that it has disappeared and when I attempt to restart it, it fails with 
a segfault.  It has happened twice now that I have been unable to restart 
sunbird for a matter of several hours, and then with no other change to the 
system and otherwise normal activity continuing, sunbird starts up fine.

The information on a konsole when starting and failing is:

jcunning@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 25986 Segmentation fault      $(type 
-P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@"
sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139)

When it finally starts OK the "Generic Event Extension" errors also appear, 
but the ap seems to run without problems.  The event extension problem is 
something else I need to resolve, but I don't think it's related to sunbird, 
as gvim and other applications starting also get them.

Anyone have any suggestions where to look when sunbird segfaults again?
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Jim

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[gentoo-user] Re: Strange sunbird segfault

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:35:04PM -0700, Jim Cunning wrote:

> jcunning@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 25986 Segmentation fault      $(type 
> -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@"
> sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139)

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> Anyone have any suggestions where to look when sunbird segfaults again?

"segmentation fault"s should never happen. They are mainly due to
mistakes in the source code. The best thing to do is to check if this is
an already known bug at Gentoo and the sundbird project. If no, you
could send a bug report.

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Nicolas Sebrecht