Core dumped while interacting with OpenOffice.org via pyuno

[Maric Michaud]

Le Friday 05 September 2008 15:04:22 Marco Bizzarri, vous avez écrit :
> Hi all.
>
> I'm experiencing a core dump while working in the following environment
>
> - debain etch
> - python2.3
> - openoffice.org 2.4
> - Zope 2.8.8
>
> I was able to get a core dump, and the backtrace shows the following:
>
> Core was generated by `python2.3 tests/testActs.py'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0xb6b5219c in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_cppu.so.3
... lot of backtrace ...
> #9  0xb68c76c7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3
> #10 0x08797840 in ?? ()
> #11 0x0989b6e0 in ?? ()
> #12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
>
> Now, I can understand that the information I provided are not enough
> to give me suggestions on solving this issue; so, I'm asking
> suggesions on investigating the issue, namely:
>
> - should I ask here or is it better if I ask on a openoffice forum?

Yes.

> - should I use a debug-enabled python in order to have more meaningful
> backtraces?

What you need is more a debug enabled version of pyuno libraries.

> - is there something else I should do in order to have more clues
> ("Read The Fine Manual (tm)" is an acceptable answer)

You can try to find which function call exactly provoke the exception, the 
simplest way is to trace execution flow with some print statments and using 
non forking zope instance (runzope -d if I remember well).




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Maric Michaud