Opening application menu crashes Cinnamon on musl-based distributions

[demize]

 * Cinnamon version: 3.8.8
 * Distribution: Void Linux (musl)
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (kernel driver in use: i915)
 * 32 or 64 bit: 64-bit
 * No logs available (.xsession-errors is empty, Void Linux doesn't have a syslog by default)

Issue

When the application menu is set to show icons for applications, opening the application menu catastrophically crashes Cinnamon, This issue was originally reported to Void Linux in voidlinux/void-packages#10204.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install a musl-based distribution such as Void Linux
2. Install and launch Cinnamon
3. Try to open the application menu.

Expected behaviour

The application menu will open.

Actual behavior

Cinnamon crashes and restarts in a broken version of safe mode, with no UI elements available.

Other information

Turning off application icons in the application menu config (by right clicking the menu) is a viable workaround, as is installing and using the Papirus theme for application icons. The person who originally reported this issue tested multiple other icon themes to no avail.

[mtwebster]

Can you restart cinnamon from a terminal so we can get some logging?

cinnamon --restart

[demize]

There's not much from stderr, and there was nothing from stdout. Opening the application menu somehow causes a segfault, which the terminal outputs but doesn't make it to the log file. I wrote out a core dump, and I've uploaded it to MEGA if it'll be any use.

[mtwebster]

Can you try processing that with gdb? I can't do much with it.

gdb cinnamon core.2028

# from within gdb,
thread apply all bt

Not sure how available debugging symbols are on that distro - that would be best to have (at least for clutter, gtk, cinnamon)

[demize]

Here's the backtrace it gave me: gdb.txt.

Edit: Actually, debug symbols are available, so I'm installing them now and I'll have a much more useful backtrace for you in a minute.

[mtwebster]

Curious do you have recent files enabled? If so, try disabling: cinnamon-settings->privacy

Check dependencies needed for cinnamon, libclutter-1.0, gtk3, cinnamon-desktop - maybe against other distros to see if anything's missing?

We might be able to determine more if we had debug symbols (which would replace all the ?? with useful function names.

One thing I noticed, papyrus theme only appears to use svg images, no pngs - most themes use a mix of both. This might be a common factor for trying different themes for the time being.

[demize]

I installed all the debug symbols I could figure out based on the backtraces, and here's the new output: gdb-withsymbols.txt

Oddly enough, gdb doesn't seem to properly recognize the symbols for mozjs. Not sure why.

[demize]

Just checked to see, recent files is already disabled.

[mtwebster]

Is there anything at play limiting process memory? One thing typical of opening the menu (with icons enabled) is a significant memory bump, the first time it's done.

I'm curious if the menu had only a few things in it, would it still crash?

[demize]

There shouldn't be anything limiting process memory; I haven't installed or configured anything to limit memory, and I don't believe Void would have any such limitations configured by default. Cinnamon works fine on the glibc version of Void as well (apparently; I haven't actually tried it myself, since I've only ever used the musl version) so it could be different behavior in memory allocation functions between musl and glibc (musl aims to be standards-conformant while glibc allows a lot that isn't standards-conformant, so it's possible that musl just doesn't like the way something's being done).

[marmistrz]

This may or may not be related: dino/dino#365
This may be some gtk issue but I've never had the time to narrow it down.

[Vahan86]

@demize, is this still an issue for you with Cinnamon 4.2?

[Vahan86]

@icarter09, can we close this issue since there is no response from OP?

[ghost]

This issue is still present with cinnamon 4.6.7 on musl

[icarter09]

@kukku14 could you open a new ticket about this issue? Thanks.