Re: [kde-freebsd] 9-CURRENT (r197801) && artsd of kde-3.5.10_2 gives SIGSEGV

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 08:32:21 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I think only supporting KDE4 is not a good idea. IMHO, KDE4 is a bit
> heading in the wrong direction. KDE4 is unusable for a lot of (older)
> hardware and is unusable, at least, for smaller laptops or netbooks,
> just because of the resources it is consuming. If the KDE team is
> leaving KDE3, and I don't expect further development, but only
> compability with upcoming FreeBSD ABI changes (or whatever), than we
> will not have KDE3 anymore from 9-CURRENT (or even from 8.0-RELEASE)
> anymore. Which would be a real pity :-(

I'm suprised someone actually uses artsd. As a fellow KDE3 user on 9-CURRENT 
(on beefy hardware btw), I didn't have this issue because I always disable 
artsd because I don't want sound notifications. As long as people are using 
KDE3 I don't think it will die because people just like you will find the 
problem(s) and fix it.

That said, I couldn't reproduce the problem (artsd works fine if I enable it).
Uname: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #2: Fri Oct  9 08:37:37 CEST 2009 i386

- Pieter

>
> I'm willing to nail this small issue down. I've already compiled the
> arts-1.5.10_2,1 port with --enable-debug=full and will test it the
> upcoming weekend. Do you have any hints for me on debugging?
> I have had already a look into the code where it crashes in
> soundserver/kmedia2.cc:
>
> ...
> unsigned long Arts::PlayObject_private_base::_IID =
> Arts::MCOPUtils::makeIID("Arts::PlayObject_private");
>
> Arts::PlayObject_base *Arts::PlayObject_base::_create(const std::string&
> subClass) {
>         Arts::Object_skel *skel =
> Arts::ObjectManager::the()->create(subClass); assert(skel);
>         Arts::PlayObject_base *castedObject = (Arts::PlayObject_base
> *)skel->_cast(Arts::PlayObject_base::_IID); assert(castedObject);
>         return castedObject;
> }
> ...
>
> but can't see anything what could cause this SIGSEGV;
>
> as well I have fetched the 8.0-RC1 precompiled package arts-1.5.10_2,1.tbz
> and will give it a try in 9-CURRENT.
>
> Will let you know what I can find out.
>
> Thanks
>
> 	matthias