#621915 xfce4-mpc-plugin: Random crashes/disappearances

Package:
xfce4-mpc-plugin
Source:
xfce4-mpc-plugin
Description:
Xfce panel plugin which serves as client for MPD music player
Submitter:
Date:
2011-12-23 18:15:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#621915#5
Date:
2011-04-09 12:54:18 UTC
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After using the plugin for some time, it sometimes seems to crash, and
at least disappears from the xfce menu bar. This seems to occur more
often when the mpd server is offline for some reason, but I am not
sure that that is always the case. The applet completely disappears
and needs to be re-added each time.
More information if I knew where to get it...
#621915#10
Date:
2011-04-11 07:55:36 UTC
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Hey,

it'd be nice if you could provide a backtrace (see
http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/panel_plugin_debug and
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace) when the plugin crashes.

Is there some kind of a scheme, something you're doing (network related
for example) when it crashes?

Regards,
#621915#15
Date:
2011-04-11 20:41:01 UTC
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Do you need the results from Valgrind or GDB? I'm not quite used to
debugging compiled programs. Running with Valgrind doesn't allow the
plugin to show, though there is some frantic CPU activity for a while.
Valgrind log attached. The GDB shell script seems to break the panel
startup, but I attached the log and used script. I'll tweak that later
this week, but if you know why the panel now seems to break, that
would help.
Not that I've noticed, but it might be because my MPD server isn't
always online, and sometimes skips through all the tracks in a
playlist quickly (this is because the music partition isn't always
mounted).

All the best,

Kasper.
#621915#20
Date:
2011-04-11 20:44:19 UTC
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What I need is the gdb backtrace. Attach to the running process then
when it crashes, run bt full.

Regards,
#621915#25
Date:
2011-12-23 18:10:56 UTC
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tags 621915 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

Any news on that? Were you able to get a backtrace?
Thanks.