I’ve been ignoring a Garbage Collection Segmentation Fault for some time
now with the help of GC.disable in my Wx::App.
I’m running Windows XP with:
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
wxruby (1.9.7)
activerecord (2.1.0)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.2)
The application stores the time spent working on tasks in SQLite when
the user starts and stops a task from the TaskBarIcon.
It uses the following Wx components: Frame, Button, BoxSizer, Grid,
GridTableBase, GridCellAttr, Panel, StaticText, TaskBarIcon, Image,
Bitmap, Menu, MiniFrame, SystemSettings, TextCtrl
The segfaults occur when I open and close the “Edit time entries” and
“Timesheet” frames.
I’ve attached a cut down version that doesn’t interface to SQLite or
ActiveRecord that still exhibits the problem.
Please let me know what other information I can provide to help this
investigation.
Thanks in advance,
Bryan
Hi Bryan
Bryan A. wrote:
the user starts and stops a task from the TaskBarIcon.
Thanks for the report, and particularly for taking the time to produce a
self-contained runnable version. It really helps investigates these
things.
I could reproduce your crash on OS X / ruby 1.8.6 with version 1.9.7 (I
don’t have an XP machine easily to hand right now, but I’d guess it’s
the same error). I traced the crash to problems with the memory
management of destroyed Menus (as popped-up by the TaskBarIcon).
However, I also tried it with the latest SVN HEAD and the crashes don’t
occur. I recently applied a fix for some similar Menu bugs and I think
this has resolved the problem you’re finding too.
Unless you have a compiler set up, there’s no workaround for now except
to keep using GC.disable. However I’ll test on Windows before the next
release to confirm this is fixed there too. Hopefully we will have a
next release in a week or two.
cheers
alex
RubyForge just told me that 1.9.8 is available.
I’d love to test if this bug is fixed, is there a plan to publish a Gem
for x86-mswin32?
Thanks,
Bryan
Bryan A. wrote:
RubyForge just told me that 1.9.8 is available.
Rubyforge sends out those automatic notices as the first file in a
release is uploaded, which was last night. Withthe amount of compiling
involved, it can take a few days to have a full collection of binary
builds available.
I’d love to test if this bug is fixed, is there a plan to publish a Gem
for x86-mswin32?
Yes, I’m just looking for a copy of the MSVC compiler at the moment.
You should be able to use the MingW build which is now available. This
is really intended for the new, improved windows version of ruby
(http://dump.mmediasys.com/installer3/) but in fact I find this build
also works with my version of the One-Click Installer (1.8.6)
So if you’re keen to try, download the -mingw gem and install it - you
might need to use --force or something. Your feedback’s welcome…
cheers
alex
Alex,
it seems that YOU are the MAN!
This issue appears fixed in version 1.9.8.
Good work, thanks for your help,
Bryan