Server crash when using IntelliJ IDEA about xpra

[SanjayVas]

Captured another log with --debug all:

xpra-server.log

Nothing jumps out at me from there as being the error. When I run in non-daemon mode, I get "Bus error" when it crashes.

[totaam]

Debian Trixie is not stable yet, so things do break.
When that happens, simply using a newer build can fix things.

Also from your log:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'dbus-launch'�[0m

That's odd, could cause problems - probably not crashes though.

I can't reproduce any problems running it on Fedora.
The fact that there is not a single unusual X11 message in your log makes me think that this is likely to be a Debian only issue, perhaps related to the use of Xvfb.

[totaam]

Does the problem go away if you turn off mmap? --mmap=no
I've just remembered doing this change: 8e51176
You could try undoing this commit.

[SanjayVas]

Interestingly, I actually can't reproduce this anymore after rebooting my machine. Prior to that it was happening so frequently that it was nearly impossible to get any work done.

Debian Trixie is not stable yet, so things do break. When that happens, simply using a newer build can fix things.

Yes, if you noticed that was the first thing I did.

To clarify, do you mean that the Xpra codebase for Trixie is not stable or are you referring to the Debian release tracks? Debian stable is extremely conservative and mostly used for servers. Desktop Debian users tend to be on Debian testing, which is currently Trixie. I would expect that out of all the Debian users that would want to use Xpra, the majority of them would not be on stable. This includes all Linux workstations for engineers at Google, for example.

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'dbus-launch'�[0m

That's odd, could cause problems - probably not crashes though.

Just in case, I installed dbus-x11 which was not installed. It made that log message go away, but did not prevent the crash.

[totaam]

To clarify, do you mean that the Xpra codebase for Trixie is not stable or are you referring to the Debian release tracks?

I meant that until Trixie is frozen, then the ABI will break. This happens, a lot, sometimes it's obvious: #3531 (comment) and other times it will just crash instead.

The xpra beta channel does get builds fairly regularly, but Debian being a sub-optimal platform for xpra (mostly because of the butchered Xorg installation) means that we don't make builds whenever the ABI breaks - I'm not even sure there would be a way to tell when that happens.

Just in case, I installed dbus-x11 which was not installed.

It should have been installed automatically as a "recommends" dependency:

xpra/packaging/debian/xpra/control

Lines 148 to 149 in be310a7

	# the server uses "dbus-launch" to enable dbus for its sessions:
	,dbus-x11

[SanjayVas]

It should have been installed automatically as a "recommends" dependency

This is fully up to whomever is installing this, right? e.g. --no-install-recommends or even installing from .deb files manually using dpkg or gdebi

[totaam]

This is fully up to whomever is installing this, right?

Yes, but as per https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/wiki/Reporting-Bugs, this should be stated from the onset, to save us all valuable time.

Please also be aware that a missing or broken dbus-x11 should never be able to cause xpra or the Xorg server to crash, this is exactly why Debian is a Tier-3 platform: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/wiki/Platforms