Best crashing application?

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:10 pm Post subject: Best crashing application?

Gentoo system runs rock solid. As a matter of fact, I do not recall any crashes at all during many years of Gentoo. Some hardware caused crashes, yes. And crashing applications, indeed.

My #1 crasher is aMule. I tried it a few years ago and it kept crashing. Today I tried it again and the GUI has a huge memory leak. Daemon runs fine, though.

What's your top crasher?
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stqn · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2015 Posts: 51

There is a fix for the memory leak in aMule; you have to change the ebuild to build it with wxGTK 2: https://bugs.gentoo.org/597194
But even then, yes, it still crashes from time to time :). Once I had to run it in a loop from the terminal to solve the issue…

Jaglover · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 3:01 am Post subject:

Thanks for mentioning the bug. However, the daemon runs fine and with amuleweb it actually can be accessed via web interface.
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

On my laptop here, mpv has a really bad habit of freezing the system entirely (= completely unresponsive screen for a minute or more, but sysrq still works) if I give it an oversized video. Chromium does it with "difficult" webpages too (basically everything these days).

I guess I have xf86-video-intel to thank for both. Can't get rid of it unfortunately.

Jaglover · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:16 pm Post subject:

What about modesetting? It is supposed to be the replacement for video-intel.
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mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747

Jaglover · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 2:35 pm Post subject:

Time for eix-update perhaps?
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Jaglover · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:51 pm Post subject:

eix -vl modesetting

Zucca · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:08 pm Post subject:

My top crashers in few years time have to be (in no particular order):

Google Earth - but it's now much more better
systemd - REISUB to the rescue
OpenShot - just compiling it again, hoping for the best
Mandelbulber 2 - I used amdgpu-pro-opencl -package to provide OpenCL, so I kinda was expecting issues... :P

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Jaglover · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:25 pm Post subject:

Ahh, I had forgotten Google Earth even exists. Do you use voyageur overlay ebuild or have your own?
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Zucca · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 5:10 pm Post subject:

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747

Sorry for getting a bit off-topic.

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

i would say magarena, i love that game, but hey, java

ps: i doesn't mean it keep crashing, but that is sure for me the best crasher, as thinking about the subject i've got hard times finding one except this one.

Zucca · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:11 am Post subject:

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

obs gave me some crashes while recording last month, haven't tried it again more recently.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8121188.html#8121188

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 1:09 pm Post subject: Re: Best crashing application?

Jaglover · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 1:29 pm Post subject:

@mv,

there is a wiki page now, some claim the old Intel driver still outperforms modesetting. Be a judge for yourself.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel#Modesetting_DDX
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Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 3:50 am Post subject:

My 'top crasher' is kde-plasma/kwin (all versions since :5 was released) during login. There must be some sort of race condition, because KWin does not crash every time I log in. It doesn't bother me; I just click 'Restart Application' if it does happen and Plasma start-up continues. KWin does not crash after the Desktop appears. Apart from KWin, I can't think of any other applications in my installation that crash these days.
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AJM · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:00 pm Post subject:

It's a very long time since I can remember any apps on my system crashing - even then it was mostly proprietary software rather than open source stuff. The one exception I think was sweep, the audio editor, which was bad for crashing at one time - I haven't used it heavily for a few years but it seems pretty stable now.

It's no longer in the portage tree and sadly no longer developed but happily survived the profile switch to 17.0 with just a little tweak of the ebuild - I know much more fancy editors are available, but it's such an easy to use and "just powerful enough" program that I can use it without any trouble at any time without having to spend ages remembering how to make the program work.

artbody · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 489 Location: LB

kdenlive

it's crashing at the End of rendering

- but videos still work :lol:

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bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

My newest "big crasher" seems to be the selfservice binary in the Citrix ICA client. Trying to launch an app via the web gateway, by icon, or "wfica file.ica" gives me "ssl error 4", despite having the certificates installed. selfservice just straight up segfaults. Connection center or preferences work just fine. :roll: