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Re: [Bug-gnubg] unstable gnubg


From: Jon Kinsey
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] unstable gnubg
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:29:34 +0000
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Petr Kadlec wrote:
Hi!


It's really hard to find this bug, since I can't recreate this when I'm
running in the debugger. Jon had a theory about some events failing. I'll
take a look at this later today.


Yesterday, I played an interesting match against gnubg and in gnubg crashed (with that 
"...cannot move, cannot move" message). I was really angry, then, I cooled a 
little bit down. :-)

After some experimenting, I am now able to deterministically cause the error. I am not sure whether 
it is the same bug (or at least a connected problem), but it has identical symptoms. So, here it 
goes: the problem happens 100% if I click on a dice in the moment I cannot move (I dance on bar). I 
tested it by starting a new match, then editing the position so that gnubg has a prime and the 
remaining pieces standing before my "anti-prime" of 6 single pieces waiting to be killed. 
Make it gnubg's turn, end edit mode, force gnubg to play. He will obviously throw out some pieces, 
and as soon as he finishes the move, prepare the mouse cursor to the position in the middle of the 
board, where the dices appear. Initially, I was just clicking wildly in hope of randomly hitting a 
dice. Then, I recognized that there is enough time to just wait for the dice to appear and then 
click on it. I am even able to click many times, so that the "cannot move" message is not 
present just twice, bu
t e.g. 10 times. After clicking OK, the assertion failure occurs.

I was thinking about diving into the code, but 1. I did not have much time, 2. 
I do not have much understanding of the Gtk-related code.

So I just hope this could help.

Unfortunately I can't recreate the problem following these steps.

Jon




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