Bugzilla Bug 8100

Abiword 1.0.2 crashes on print preview, print and exit... Is this Gentoo 1.4rc1
specific? I've also had this problem with a system compiled with GCC 3.1.1...
Any info is appreciated

<error text>
Applicatoin "/usr/bin/AbiWord_d" (process 28781) has crashed due to a fatal error.
(Segmentation fault)
</error text>

I get the same error with GCC 3.2

*** Bug 8850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Seems to be an abiword bug http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3846

And another one to keep an eye on
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3457 .

I'm also a Gentoo user, and i have the same bug.
I'm (only) a C programmer, and not a a C++ programmer,
but i 've had a look at the code of the
release 1.0.2 :
it seem's that the crasch occurs line 963 in
abi/src/af/xap/unix/xap_UnixFrame.cpp, which is
gtk_widget_destroy(getTopLevelWindow());

That's in the method bool XAP_UnixFrame::close(),
called from the file
abi/src/wp/ap/xp/ap_EditMethods.cpp, line 2804, at
the end of the function
static bool s_closeWindow (AV_View * pAV_View,
EV_EditMethodCallData *pCallDate, bool bCanExit )

Could it come from the callback function
for the "destroy" signal ?
(I'm not a gtk guru...)

Hope this could help

interesting, for me the problem still exists in 1.4_pre1. Can you confirm that
one too ?

The problem is that on some systems which seem quite similar it does happen and
on other it's doesn't.

To give any sensible futher comment i need to look at it myself, will do so later.

Yes, i'm also using gentoo 1.4_pre1.
I build it from stage1 (stage1-x86-1.4_rc1-20020908-1208.tar.bz2)
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
with an athlon XP 1900+

I removed my -O3 option, and add a -g option to CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf, and
abiword don't crash anymore !
now, my -g option is useless :-)

In fact, it still crash when i ask for a print preview. But it don't crash when
quitting.

Created an attachment (id=6589) [edit]
debug info grabed from bug-buddy (abiword 1.0.4_pre1-r1)

here is the debug infos i get when i choose "print preview" in the "file" menu.

My CFLAGS has a -g option, and no -Ox option
I tried to rebuild also libgnome, libgnomeui, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui
and gtk+-1.2.10-r9 with the same options, but i didn't get more debug
informations.

I just did a 'USE="-gnome" emerge abiword' as per
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3457#c7 and neither print nor exit
causes a crash anymore.

Well, i think the print and exit crashes are unrelated. And the print crash i
havent seen in a while, the exit crash though is still there when i USE=-gnome.
Only you probably don't notice because there's no gnome crash dialog. Try
running abi from the commandline and check.

I can confirm that. Using -gnome I still get the "crash on exit":

/usr/bin/abiword: line 67:  2740 Aborted                
$ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d "$@"

gdb reports:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x401146b1 in gtk_handlers_run () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0

(gdb) bt
#0  0x401146b1 in gtk_handlers_run () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
Cannot access memory at address 0x0

I've just built 1.4rc2 and AbiWord 1.0.4_pre1-r1 and AbiWord-1.0.4 both crash
on print, print preview, and exit as per the above.

My compiler optimizations are the standard -march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe and
nothing else special. GCC 3.2.1 does like to complain about the abiword source
though, while it's building it.

This problem (crash on exit) goes away if -O1 is used instead of -O2 in the
CXXFLAGS. I added CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS//-O?} -O1" to the ebuild just above the
econf line. 
I hope this helps to narrow down this problem a little.

BTW I tried this on abiword-1.0.5 (which still has this problem)

this is amazing ... such a longstanding problem with such an easy solution.
Well, at least it works for me.. i'm adding it to the 1.0.5 ebuild in the tree
now.

Though i remember trying different optimizations to get it right.. duh mustve
missed this.

since 1.0.5 is stable now and has this optimization cap we should be fine from
now on.

thnx for your patience and help.