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Bug 182222 - Dbx error notification system can confuse a user
Summary: Dbx error notification system can confuse a user
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: third-party
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DBX-Gui (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal (vote)
Assignee: ivan
URL:
Keywords: USABILITY
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-03-17 14:53 UTC by Alexander Pepin
Modified: 2010-06-11 21:08 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Alexander Pepin 2010-03-17 14:53:44 UTC
If any internal dbx warning appears it's shown in pop-up window and can easily confuse a user as it looks like no future work with dbx is impossible. Whereas it's just a warning and nothing prevents dbx from working properly.
e.g. in CR: 6929322 dbx error window appears with the message:

dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfd982000[16384] of size 0 in core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfd9c3000[16384] of size 0 in core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfebf1000[16384] of size 0 in core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfd982000[16384] of size 0 in core
Too many errors ...
    
At the same time dbx console shows:

For information about new features see `help changes'
To remove this message, put `dbxenv suppress_startup_message 7.8' in your .dbxrc
(dbx) debug - /export/home/tester/SunStudioProjects/Fractal_2/core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfd982000[16384] of size 0 in core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfd9c3000[16384] of size 0 in core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfebf1000[16384] of size 0 in core
Corefile specified executable: "/export/home/tester/SunStudioProjects/Fractal_2/dist/Debug/OracleSolarisStudio-Solaris-x86/fractal_2"
Reading fractal_2
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfd982000[16384] of size 0 in core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfd9c3000[16384] of size 0 in core
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfebf1000[16384] of size 0 in core
core file header read successfully
Reading ld.so.1
Reading er_sync.so
Reading er_heap.so
Reading libcollector.so
Reading libCstd.so.1
Reading libCrun.so.1
Reading libm.so.2
Reading libc.so.1
Reading libdl.so.1
program terminated by signal FPE (integer divide by zero)
Current function is Mandelbrot
(dbx) cd /export/home/tester/SunStudioProjects/Fractal_2
(dbx) runargs 
(dbx) intercept -set -unhandled, -unexpected
(dbx) cd /export/home/tester/SunStudioProjects/Fractal_2
(dbx)
Comment 1 ivan 2010-06-11 21:08:38 UTC
The confusion arising from this specific scenario is addressed in
CR 6929322 against dbx. 
I'm of the opinion that any other confusing error messages also have to
be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Ergo, there's no general
purpose fix to be made.