Crash in QWidget destruction - Help

[amol.mahesh@gmail.com]

Hi,

Please look at the following stack for a crash

I am going back and forth between two screens and some times while deleting the screen (widget) end up with the crash in QWidget destructor while deleting extra data (Not sure what is that used for). Now the actual crash for some reason is in QString destructor though.

Can it be due to something wrong with the stylesheet or .ui file?

43 QBasicAtomicInt::deref() C:\Qt\4.6.2_Symbian\src\corelib\arch\qatomic_symbian.h:123 0x0274bf1d
42 QString::~QString() C:\Qt\4.6.2_Symbian\src\corelib\tools\qstring.h:869 0x0274fc1b
41 0x2F6AC6D( QtGui.dll )() 0x02f6ac6d
40 0x2F6AC2C( QtGui.dll )() 0x02f6ac2c
39 QWidgetPrivate::deleteExtra() C:\Qt\4.6.2_Symbian\src\gui\kernel\qwidget.cpp:1620 0x02f6abd1
38 QWidgetPrivate::~QWidgetPrivate() C:\Qt\4.6.2_Symbian\src\gui\kernel\qwidget.cpp:231 0x02f68382
37 0x2F80E1C( QtGui.dll )() 0x02f80e1c
36 QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>::cleanup() C:\Qt\4.6.2_Symbian\src\corelib\tools\qscopedpointer.h:63 0x028037f8
35 QScopedPointer<QObjectData, QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>>::~QScopedPointer() C:\Qt\4.6.2_Symbian\src\corelib\tools\qscopedpointer.h:100 0x028037c5
34 QObject::~QObject() C:\Qt\4.6.2_Symbian\src\corelib\kernel\qobject.cpp:984 0x02803f11
33 QWidget::~QWidget()

Thanks

[divanov]

Can it be due to something wrong with the stylesheet or .ui file?

Providing stripped backtraces without sources is not useful.

[danhicksbyron]

Not likely to be due to UI or stylesheet file. I managed to create something vaguely similar when I mixed metaphors and had a destructor method explicitly deleting objects that were (more or less simultaneously) being deleted by the parent-child mechanism.

[amol.mahesh@gmail.com]

Thanks.
All I am deleting in my destructor is the "ui" pointer which was created in constructor.
Now again this code was created by the QT Creator as a default template. But I am not deleting any other child

[danhicksbyron]

Are you by any chance using any QScopedPointers?

[amol.mahesh@gmail.com]

Not directly in my code. Looks like QWidget, QObject uses it though.

[amol.mahesh@gmail.com]

Is it required that i should disconnect all signals and slots in my destructor?

[danhicksbyron]

No. It's unlikely that signal/slot connections would have anything to do with this. Most likely you're violating one of the written or unwritten rules of Qt heap management, but these problems can be very difficult to sort out.

Is it required that i should disconnect all signals and slots in my destructor?

[amol.mahesh@gmail.com]

More Info.

inline QString::~QString() { if (!d->ref.deref()) free(d); }

d is coming as 0 in this case.

Infact this "delete extra" which is causing this crash is not understood as well. If i look at the extra structure variables after crash, I do not see any thing that needs to be deleted as every thing is already deleted.

[hagbard5]

Were you able to sort this out? You are describing pretty much the same problem I am having at the moment (on Linux / i386)

[danhicksbyron]

My guess is that you're deleting something that "belongs" to QObject in your destructor.

[divanov]

Use CONFIG += debug option to have debug symbols in binary and then use
gdb -c path_to_coredump path_to_your_binary
and then bt to get a backtrace.

[danhicksbyron]

Looking at the code in detail, I'm wondering if you've maybe stomped on your object. QScopedPointer destructor should be deleting a QThreadData object, not a widget.

[hagbard5]

I figured out what the problem was in my case: Just the kind of classic C++ coding mistake you make when you spoiled yourself with Java or C# too much. The crash occurred when I called a method that was supposed to return a QString, but missed the actual return statement. In Java or C# that code wouldn't even compile, while good old g++ doesn't even bother to give you a warning ... hope this helps.

[divanov]

In Java or C# that code wouldn't even compile, while good old g++ doesn't even bother to give you a warning ... hope this helps.

I'm using g++ and have a warning

#include <QtCore>

QString returnString()
{
    QString str = "string";
}


int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
    QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);

    qDebug() << returnString();
}

g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -I. -I. -o main.o main.cpp
main.cpp: In function ‘QString returnString()’:
main.cpp:6: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void
g++ -Wl,-O1 -o geo main.o    -L/usr/lib -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread