FreeBSD Port: Thunar-1.6.7_1

Sun May 3 07:02:39 UTC 2015

On Sat, 02 May 2015 20:25:28 -0700
Will Brokenbourgh via freebsd-xfce <freebsd-xfce at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 05/02/15 18:48, Will Brokenbourgh wrote:
> > On 05/02/15 18:05, Will Brokenbourgh wrote:
> >> Greetings maintainers!  Thank you for all of your hard work! :-)
> >>
> >> I am using the binary package of Thunar on FreeBSD 10.1 amd64. It has 
> >> now crashed several times since my clean system install yesterday, 
> >> and almost every crash the error message is:
> >>
> >>> GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error from C library during 
> >>> 'pthread_mutex_lock': Invalid argument. Aborting.
> >>
> >> The crashes seem to happen during moderate disk usage, but there is 
> >> no definite pattern and trying to intentionally crash it repeatedly 
> >> is difficult.
> >>
> >> First notable crash was when I had selected several files with Thunar 
> >> in ~/.local/share/applications using Ctrl+left click, then 
> >> right-clicked one of the selected items and chose 'Delete'.  In the 
> >> middle of the delete operation, Thunar crashed with the above message.
> >>
> >> Another notable crash: Thunar was opened to a folder in my home 
> >> folder, sitting unused and idle, minimized/iconified.  I opened xterm 
> >> (from lxpanel, NOT Thunar), then performed 'sudo pkg install 
> >> smplayer'.  Thunar crashed with the above message at the latter part 
> >> of the package installation.  I have noticed a few times in the past 
> >> that some apps will crash while sitting idle when I am performing 
> >> operations with pkg in xterm.
> >>
> >> I have also tried building Thunar from the ports tree with 
> >> WITH_DEBUG, but when I opened the core dump with gdb, the backtrace 
> >> only provided useless numeric addresses, no function names or files.
> >>
> >> uname -a:
> >>> FreeBSD will-freebsd 10.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p9 #0: Tue 
> >>> Apr  7 01:09:46 UTC 2015 
> >>> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> >>
> >> dmesg at time of crash:
> >>> pid 941 (thunar), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
> >>
> >> Other apps running:
> >>     openbox, lxpanel, thunderbird, firefox and xterm
> >>
> >> Hardware info:
> >>     * AMD 6-core processor (dmesg: "AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core 
> >> Processor (3511.78-MHz K8-class CPU)")
> >>     * Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboard
> >>     * Radeon HD 5450 video card
> >>     * 8 GB RAM
> >>     * 500 GB 7,200 RPM Samsung hdd (dmesg: "SAMSUNG HD502HJ 1AJ10001")
> >>
> >> On Ubuntu and other Linux distros, Thunar is very stable and hasn't 
> >> crashed like this on the same hardware.
> >>
> >> Please let me know if I need to provide additional information.
> >>
> >> Thank you and God bless! :-)
> >>
> >> Will Brokenbourgh
> >>
> >
> > Hello again, maintainers,
> >
> > I was finally able to get Thunar built with debug symbols and started 
> > it under gdb.  In Thunar, I navigated to a folder in my home 
> > directory, double-clicked a sound file to play it, then minimized 
> > Thunar.  I then performed the following commands repeatedly and Thunar 
> > crashed while sitting unused/idle:
> >
> >     sudo pkg remove -y smplayer && \
> >     sudo pkg autoremove -y && \
> >     sudo pkg clean -ay && \
> >     sudo pkg install -y smplayer && \
> >     sudo ldconfig
> >
> > The gdb output and backtrace are below:
> > - - - - -
> > will at will-freebsd:~ % gdb thunar
> > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
> > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > [...snip...]
> > This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...
> > (gdb) r
> > Starting program: /usr/local/bin/thunar
> > [New LWP 101083]
> > [New Thread 80a006400 (LWP 101083/thunar)]
> > [New Thread 80a301000 (LWP 101096/thunar)]
> > This is SMPlayer v. 14.9.0 running on Other OS
> > GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error from C library during 
> > 'pthread_mutex_lock': Invalid argument.  Aborting.
> > [New Thread 80a010000 (LWP 101094/thunar)]
> >
> > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> > [Switching to Thread 80a010000 (LWP 101094/thunar)]
> > 0x0000000803e0c6ca in thr_kill () from /lib/libc.so.7
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x0000000803e0c6ca in thr_kill () from /lib/libc.so.7
> > #1  0x0000000803ee1149 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7
> > #2  0x0000000803920c55 in g_mutex_lock () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #3  0x0000000803920c1e in g_mutex_lock () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #4  0x00000008030eaebb in g_file_monitor_emit_event () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
> > #5  0x00000008038dbfb8 in g_main_context_dispatch () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #6  0x00000008038dc34e in g_main_context_pending () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #7  0x00000008038dc3d4 in g_main_context_iteration () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #8  0x00000008038ddbb6 in g_main_context_invoke_full () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #9  0x000000080390202a in g_thread_unref () from 
> > /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > #10 0x0000000802c524f5 in pthread_create () from /lib/libthr.so.3
> > #11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> > - - - - -
> >
> > If I can provide any other information, please let me know.
> >
> > Thank you! :-)
> >
> > Will Brokenbourgh
> 
> Hello again maintainers,
> 
> On closer inspection, this appears to be a problem with devel/glib20, 
> and not Thunar, as I am now seeing Firefox and Thunderbird crashing with 
> the same error message.
> 
> I have submitted a problem report on the bug tracker for glib:
>      https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199872
> 
> Thank you, :-)
> 
> Will Brokenbourgh

Hi Will,

Thanks you for you feedback about Thunar.
I known some users reported that Thunar crashes [1], [2] often. I think it's better to add also your backtrace, in order to help developers.
Thunar is rather complex, sorry :(

Regards,

[1] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10596
[2] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11880

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