[Gramps-devel] Debugging crash in gramps

[James A. T. <tr...@de...>]

Hello,

Do you have any pointers to debugging a crash in gramps? This would be
so easy in C.

It only crashes when exiting from the event dialog - using either OK
or Cancel. A dialog pops up stating 'Application "/usr/bin/python"
(process 17636) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation
fault)'. Running the program with 'python -d' doesn't help.

This is on a Debian woody system with 0.7.0 installed. It was working
fine until about a week ago. I believe the problems started when I
upgraded one of python, python-glade or python-gnome but that is
just a guess. I think the upgrade may have switched the last of the
components from using python 1.5 to python 2.1.

I tried recompiling gramps (originally compiled using python 1.5) on
a fully python 2.1 system and it made no difference.

On a different topic, is there any work being done on a tutorial
for creating a good database? What I mean by this is explaining
recommended ways of storing dates (especially uncertain ones, like
'spring 1940-1941' or 'May 21' with no year and teaching standard
gedcom keywords like BEFORE and ABOUT) and storing places, e.g. in
an event, do you put everything in the place, like 'St. Mary's,
Baltimore, MD'?
I actually know the answer to some of the above, but not all of them.
A document that helps people make a robust database would be a great
asset.

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
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