Re: PgAdmin Crash Dialog

Hi Christoph

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> wrote:
> Re: Leonard Boyce 2014-08-29 <CAKj1m=K7usp+_Mp3C9QMyadF7n9C=gJHdaqrvHKtqRwmbd9V3g@mail.gmail.com>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Sorry to say, no symbols in the pgadmin3 binary or any of the wx libs.
>
> The debug symbols (from -g2 -O2) are in a separate package,
> pgadmin3-dbg. The binaries in "pgadmin3" are stripped, same for the
> libs.
>
> That said, we ship a non-debug build in terms of what the build system
> says:
>
> Building a debug version of pgAdmin:    No
> Statically linking pgAdmin:             No
> Building a Mac OS X appbundle:          No

OK. Judging from the stacktrace, it's wxWidgets that's at fault here.

>> >>>> Event: Crash dialog when right clicking a collapsed PgAdmin window in Task panel
>> >>>> Replication Steps: Unable to replicate
>
> There's several ways to make the stock Debian and apt.postgresql.org
> pgadmin3 packages crash:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750557
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760350
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754114
>
> Dave, would you have any suggestions what we could try to get the
> problem fixed? Would a proper debug build yield more insight?

Unfortunately there are a number of such bugs that are not actually in
pgAdmin and we've been unable to get fixed. That's one of the reasons
why we're starting work on pgAdmin 4 which won't use wxWidgets. It
might be worth trying a debug build, but I'm not going to hold my
breath.

> Have you tried building with wx3.0 on your OS?

wx3.0 *should* work, but most of us are still using 2.8 so it's
definitely not as well tested.

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