Bug 379253

Summary:	gnome-shell segfaults when gjs is built against spidermonkey
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benedikt Reinartz <filmor>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Benedikt Reinartz 2011-08-15 11:52:07 UTC

When I use gjs[-xulrunner] gnome-shell segfaults when starting up. I only tried this with versions >3.1, but I would highly suspect that this is a spidermonkey-related error. The most I could get from the crash was a "Could not access memory address 0x8", suggesting that NULL struct-pointer was accessed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gjs[-xulrunner]
2. Try to use gnome-shell
Actual Results:  
Segfaults.

Expected Results:  
No segfault.

Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-15 16:38:38 UTC

Strange; spidermonkey-1.8.5 + gjs-1.29.16[-xulrunner] + gnome-shell-3.1.4 work fine here.

> The most I could get from the crash was a "Could
> not access memory address 0x8", suggesting that NULL struct-pointer was
> accessed.

Could you please try getting a gdb backtrace? (For a useful backtrace, you will need to build spidermonkey, gjs, gnome-shell, etc. with debug symbols, see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml)