Re: [Denemo-devel] latest mingw binary

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 09:27 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I have rebuilt a snapshot with the mingw branch. If this fixes the
> problem, I may just need to use a different Cairo version in master.
This does fix the problem - I did quite a bit of testing with the 17th
Aug version, no crashes.
Richard

> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> On Aug 17, 2014 4:07 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 08:56 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
>         > >  After rebooting it crashed after hitting a "m" (I believe
>         it was)
>         > on
>         > > the chord chart pallete when the cursor was above a note.
>         > I suspect this is the "random-crash-after-a-minute-or-two"
>         which I
>         > emailed about earlier. The program seems to work fine, but
>         when I
>         > tested
>         > an earlier build under gdb it spontaneously crashed in some
>         system
>         > routine that was possibly connected with threading.
>         
>         I've just run the mingw binary from 15th Aug under gdb. After
>         entering
>         two or three notes it crashed in the draw routine.
>         The where command showed that cairo was deleting a context
>         when a memory
>         allocation error occurred.
>         It had started up just fine, LilyPond had been run to typeset
>         the
>         (empty) score.
>         I tried leaving it running for 5 minutes or so after startup
>         and it
>         didn't crash (even though the draw routine is being run in
>         order to
>         flash the denemo cursor).
>         Then I entered 4 notes and it crashed.
>         Repeating this half-a-dozen times it always crashed after 4 to
>         6 notes
>         entered, and the crash was always in a cairo routine called by
>         the
>         scorearea_draw(). It was nearly always at a different routine
>         in the
>         system libraries that cairo calls.
>         
>         Richard
>         
>         
>         
>