Re: Segfault in SystemPreferences

[Andreas Schik]

Fred Kiefer schrieb:
> 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
It did. I already suspected that and removed all prefs bundles from System,
but did not see that I had an old one in Local :-) Your response helped 
me see that.

I still have a problem with SystemPreferences, though. The colours panel 
does not work. Clicking 'Show All' in this panel yields the following:

2009-06-08 16:01:23.133 SystemPreferences[12103] File NSString.m: 1237.
In -[NSString initWithContentsOfFile:] Contents of file 
'/home/ahe/GNUstep/Library/Colors/System.clr' are not string data
2009-06-08 16:01:23.133 SystemPreferences[12103] Scanner initialised 
with nil string
2009-06-08 16:01:23.133 SystemPreferences[12103] Unable to read color 
file at "/home/ahe/GNUstep/Library/Colors/System.clr" -- unknown format.

SystemPreferences does not respond for several seconds before it 
segfaults. The file is actually some binary stuff.

Andreas