Re: Segfault in SystemPreferences

[Fred Kiefer]

Andreas Schik wrote:
> Hi all,
> last week (May, 27th) I upgraded my GNUstep installation from SVN and
> encountered problems with SystemPreferences and GWorkspace.
> Both simply segfault during startup. Additionally, GWorkspace tells me
> that is cannot load English.lproj/PrefWindow.gorm.
> 
> In both cases the debugger shows that the crash happens in
> -[GSFFCallInvocation initWithMethodSignature:]. Here is the bachtrace:
> 
> #0  0xb794a873 in -[GSFFCallInvocation initWithMethodSignature:] (
>     self=0xc1f00000, _cmd=0x200862, aSignature=0x38220000)
>     at GSFFCallInvocation.m:548
> #1  0x00050000 in ?? ()
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> 
> No, I did not compile -base with debug info, yet, as I did not have time
> so far, but maybe someone already has an answer for me and spares me
> debugging -base :-)
> 

It is highly likely that this behaviour is caused by Systempreferences
now being installed in a different domain than before. By default it
will now be installed in Local not System. But there still are the old
preference panes in System and these will get loaded, but wont work
correctly with the new application. Best to remove all these old
components. I also changed the installation domain by adding
Systempreferences to /etc/GNUstep/installation-domains.conf, but this is
optional and just shows that I still recent the change we made here :-)

Hope this helps
Fred