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Bug 379253 - gnome-shell segfaults when gjs is built against spidermonkey
Summary: gnome-shell segfaults when gjs is built against spidermonkey
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2011-08-15 11:52 UTC by Benedikt Reinartz
Modified: 2011-08-27 21:49 UTC (History)
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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)