[gnome-love] Re: Reminder: fix critical warnings before Jan. 1st

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 12/5/05, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
<snip>
> On 12/5/05, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a reminder to fix all critical warnings before January 1st.  On
> > that day, users of gnome-session HEAD will get G_DEBUG=fatal_criticals
> > turned on automatically.
> >
> > Let's find those bugs and kill them!
>
> It would be helpful if we could get a bunch of people to try this out
> early so we can get preliminary reports.  I have done so and haven't
> seen any crashes yet, but then again my daily usage pattern isn't very
> extensive.  All you need to do is modify
> gnome-session/gnome-session/main.c:is_later_than_date_of_doom()
> replacing 2006 with 2005, recompile gnome-session, and then relogin.

It turns out the reason I wasn't getting any crashes is because the
years were measured _since 1900_, and so my change wouldn't have
enabled fatal_criticals until the year 3905.  While that is one year
sooner than 3906, it would still be a bit long to wait.  So, if you
made this change, please change again from 2005 to 105 so that you can
actually see the crashes.  If you didn't make the change, please try
it out (though now you need to search for the number 106 instead of
2006).

I do get a couple crashes myself, one in libwnck (filed a while ago
and with a couple patches from Vincent that we just need an expert
(i.e. not me) to review), and one in mixer_applet2 that I filed a bug
for.

Thanks everyone,
Elijah