Re: [E-devel] Fwd: [Bug 256408] devel/efl: efreetd crashes with "Abort trap", thus application menu icons disappear

guard it with ifdef and submit to phab.

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 10:22 AM Quelrond <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Could you have a look to this patch, please?
>
> Peter
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        [Bug 256408] devel/efl: efreetd crashes with "Abort trap",
> thus application menu icons disappear
> Date:   Fri, 04 Jun 2021 09:15:59 +0000
> From:   [email protected]
> To:     [email protected]
>
>
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256408
>
> Bug ID: 256408
> Summary: devel/efl: efreetd crashes with "Abort trap", thus
> application menu icons disappear
> Product: Ports & Packages
> Version: Latest
> Hardware: Any
> OS: Any
> Status: New
> Severity: Affects Many People
> Priority: ---
> Component: Individual Port(s)
> Assignee: [email protected]
> Reporter: [email protected]
> Flags: maintainer-feedback?([email protected])
> Assignee: [email protected]
> Attachment #225539 text/plain
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> Created attachment 225539
> --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=225539&action=edit
> Patch for devel/efl to fix eftreetd crash.
>
> I have discovered a pretty major bug in efl which affects efreetd and in
> turn
> affects enlightenment. It happens when a large number of icons or theme
> resources / assets are installed into /usr/local/share/... The efreetd
> daemon
> crashes with "Abort trap" error message when run from a users terminal. It
> causes the application menu icons to disappear, partially or fully. It
> can also
> cause an error message about efreetd (cache) not connecting with a
> timeout. It
> also causes problems with the initial enlightenment prompts with a fresh .e
> profile.
>
> I have a good solution that I have a patch for an immediate fix, until I
> make a
> PR with the upstream efl project. I'd like to hear the thoughts of the
> FreeBSD
> enlightenment team before I engage with them.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> Install any major KDE app like Dolphin, Gwenview, Okular etc. Or
> specifically
> kf5-breeze-icons. Then run efreetd as a regular user from a TTY (no X
> sessions
> running).
>
> I have a more thorough description of the problem on the FreeBSD Forums:
>
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/solved-enlightenment-application-menu-icons-missing-due-to-efreetd-crashing.80743/
>
> The patch is attached.
>
> Is it possible to get an enlightenment port revision with this patch out
> the
> door ASAP. I have been running it in production on my media-centre for
> almost 2
> weeks now, no issues. Everything else seems fine, the performance seems
> to be
> as good if not better than the same version of Enlightenment/EFL on Manjaro
> Linux (very similar hardware).
>
> It's a pretty urgent bug fix. I am new to enlightenment and loving it
> now. But
> I very nearly turned my back on it an use KDE instead, before even
> giving it a
> chance. If I had known it would take me 2-3 solid weeks to find the bug
> I never
> would have started. This is not just personal time, it is work time that I
> would not be spending, had I known how long it would take. It only took
> about 5
> mins to fix once I found the problem, but that's usually how it goes with
> debugging.
>
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