[Freewx-maint] Bug#746526: python-wxgtk2.8: python segfaults on wx/_html.so

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 12:49:53AM +0200, Martijn wrote:
> I encountered segfaults of python2.7 when using wikidpad. Running it through
> gdb revealed that the problem was wx/_html.so:
> At the moment of  the crash I had the wikidpad internal html rendere switched
> on en was browsing the wiki.
> After I disabled html rendering or swithed to the webkit renderer, which is
> offered in addition to the wxwidget html widget, wikidpad ran without problems.
> This pinpoints the problem to the wxwidget html engine or underlying modules.
> 
> The gdb listing prior after the segfault is:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff4b02b07 in wxArrayString::Index(wchar_t const*, bool, bool) const ()
> from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
> (gdb) pyframe
> No symbol "PyStringObject" in current context.
> (gdb) up
> #1  0x00007ffff5b2ff74 in wxHtmlTag::HasParam(wxString const&) const () from
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so.0

Without debug info, this doesn't really help narrow things down enough.
You could retry with python-wxgtk2.8-dbg instead of python-wxgtk2.8 -
despite the name, it's actually a replacement build rather than just
detached debug symbols (because it predates the -dbg naming convention).

Unfortunately, wx 2.8 is effectively no longer maintained.  Upstream
haven't officially ended development, but nobody actually willing to put
in the work to continuing making 2.8.x releases has stepped forward in
the ~3 years since 2.8.12 was released, and bug reports against it
rarely get much attention.

I'm working on moving Debian to wx 3.0, but I haven't packaged wxpython
3.0 yet.

Cheers,
    Olly