pcmanfm crashing often

[Julien Lavergne]

Also, if you are running precise, each crash you should be caught by
apport, and re-create the gdb log. But it would be very useful to have
the steps to reproduce the bug.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

Le 02/13/2012 03:48 AM, Axel FILMORE a écrit :
> I agree with you, it often crashes, there's a good documentation here :
> http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:PCManFM_build_and_setup_guide
>
> Particularly the section "Bug Reporting and How to Help Debug PCManFM"
>
> I'm adding this, once you have built it from sources with debug info,
> it's possible to run it within Gdb at startup.
>
> Install gnome-terminal so that you have a terminal especially for
> this, then :
>
> sudo leafpad /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart
>
> Replace :
> @pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu
>
> With :
> @gnome-terminal -e "gdb -ex run
> --directory=/home/your_name/directory_of_pcmanfm_sources_on_your_drive
> --args pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu"
>
> Test that Gdb command before adding it to the autostart file to avoid
> troubles. :)
>
> When it crashes, go to the gnome-terminal window and type "bt" to get
> a backtrace, you'll find where it crashed.
> Type "r" to restart it.
>
> The best way to find bugs in LXDE/Lubuntu is to use it every day, it
> doesn't take a long time to find weird features.
> :-P
>
> Regards.
>
> On 12/02/2012 17:06, karl anliot wrote:
>> Hi, I'm the most junior member of the lubuntu team, and I want to
>> call attention to a problem area.
>>
>> pcmanfm is crashing a lot.  Very often.  I haven't been running
>> precise for very long, but it makes me worry, as this seems like an
>> obvious problem.
>> cheers--
>> karl anliot<kanliot at gmail.com>
>>
>
>