[Dextrose] Sugar restart when downloading

[Jorge Saldivar]

On 10/18/2010 06:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 15:58 -0300, Jorge Saldivar wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Someone knows why dextrose (for xo 1.5) restart while you are
>> downloading something (big) in journal?
>>
>> The test case is the following:
>> 1. Enter here
>> http://xoplanet.blogspot.com/2010/08/descargar-open-office-para-xo.html to download oo4kids (~105MB)
>> 2. Wait and when the download is between 5% or 6% sugar restart and in
>> the log I can see this message: "python: Modules/gcmodule.c:262:
>> update_refs: La declaración `gc->gc.gc_refs != 0' no se cumple."
>>
> This is sl#2064, which has been haunting us for a while.
>
> See comment 7, it describes exactly the problem you're seeing:
>
>    http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2064#comment:7
>
> A few days ago I have obtained full a backtrace of this bug on Fedora 14
> (so it's not Dextrose specific or 0.88 specific):
>
>    http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/2064/sl2064-full-backtrace.txt
>
> I have also filed it in Red Hat's bugzilla, but so far nobody analyzed
> it:
>
>    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640972
>
>
I tried in Sugar 0.84 and It doesn't happend in that version. I think 
may be is something related with the progress bar as you said.
> I have kept the full coredump of the crashing project, if someone would
> like to inspect the variables with gdb.
>
> Another interesting question is: what exactly is the Sugar shell process
> doing while a file is downloading? We already suspect dbus, but finding
> the exact function call that triggers the bug may let us create a
> minimal testcase that triggers the bug quickly and is easier to debug.
>
>

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Jorge A. Saldivar G.-
Paraguay EDUCA