solus trash icon widget

algent

brent I have no issues with that applet.

brent

algent thanks algent. I will check for broken packages now. appreciate that

edit: I wonder why a single widget would cause this? maybe a theme-related glitch. haven't done any eopkg housecleaning lately or vacuuming etc.

brent

routine maintenance + routine eopkg maintenance, followed by a reboot did nothing. (install=crash)

will swap out themes etc later to prove my remaining hypothesis (unless anyone else has an opinion?) and report back tonight. back to work.

WetGeek

brent will swap out themes etc later

On the bright side, I think you may have set a new record for the number of themes you'v adopted (and then removed). I doubt anyone else is close!

brent

WetGeek [opens software center, types themes, installs all, opens lager]

EbonJaeger will give that a whirl later, thanks for the tip

EbonJaeger

brent given that this seems to kill your session, I'm not sure that this will work, but could you try to do the steps here to try to get a backtrace? You'll probably also want to install budgie-trash-applet-dbginfo. If that works, that would tell me where it's going wrong. Well... hopefully...

brent

EbonJaeger Wow thats some steps🙂. Printing this all out and trying later. Hopefully I make it back to give you some useful info!

brent

EbonJaeger OK this is from Josh's article:
"First, replace your existing budgie-panel with one managed by gdb and pipe the output into the referenced file:

gdb budgie-panel 2&>1 | tee ~/budgie-panel-gdb.txt
Once you're in gdb, you will be presented with a prompt showing (gdb). Typer --replace and press ENTER / Return. It should replace your budgie-panel."

This is as far as I got. Nothing got replaced. I installed everything. Ebon, you suggested an additional package budgie-trash-applet-dbginfo but I have no access to this in my eopkg. Another repo?

After install I tried: gdb budgie-panel 2&>1 | tee ~/budgie-panel-gdb.txt. the terminal just hung up forever.
So I re-read "once you're in gdb" so I launch gdb.
I enter gdb budgie-panel 2&>1 | tee ~/budgie-panel-gdb.txt.
gdb is unhappy that gdb was in the command.
so I typed budgie-panel 2&>1 | tee ~/budgie-panel-gdb.txt.
nothing.
so I just assumed I created a text file somewhere (with no proof) and advanced into gdb again with "type-r --replace" and hit enter. It should replace your budgie panel."
Crickets.
Looked up recent *.txt files and I failed creating that file as well.
I installed the two packages recommended to debug this app.
I completely failed at debugging.
Where did I go wrong?
Thanks.

brent

"Generating a Backtrace
First, replace your existing budgie-panel with one managed by gdb and pipe the output into the referenced file:
gdb budgie-panel 2&>1 | tee ~/budgie-panel-gdb.txt
Once you're in gdb, you will be presented with a prompt showing (gdb). Type r --replace and press ENTER / Return. It should replace your budgie-panel."
OK--made file.
I'm in gdb:
(gdb) r --replace Starting program: --replace No executable file specified. Use the "file" or "exec-file" command. (gdb) r --replace Starting program: --replace No executable file specified. Use the "file" or "exec-file" command. (gdb) r Starting program: --replace No executable file specified. Use the "file" or "exec-file" command. (gdb) r --replace Starting program: --replace No executable file specified. Use the "file" or "exec-file" command. (gdb)Is there a missing argument here? budgie-panel does not get replaced.

brent

"Next, perform the actions required to cause the segfault. You should see something like Thread 1 "budgie-panel" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Press Enter / Return and you should now see a (gdb) prompt again."

In short, I'm unable (incapable🙂) to get to ^ this step.

EbonJaeger

@brent Can you try just gdb budgie-panel, then r --replace in the GDB prompt? Assuming that works, and you can actually get a trace from it, we'll worry about copying out the output later.

brent

EbonJaeger headin out. when I get home, thanks for responding

brent

unless the real command is (gdb) r --replace budgie-panel ?
will try after holiday lunch

(happy holiday solus peeps)

EbonJaeger

brent no worries. Enjoy the holiday, sir! 🦃