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Core dump that doesn't appear to cause issues #1492

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I was going through my journal logs and noticed that dunst seems to coredump frequently, perhaps every time I receive a notification. It doesn't seem to cause any issues: I still receive further notifications, but I thought it'd be useful to post the output of coredumpctl info in case you'd like to fix whatever's causing it:

           PID: 4273 (.dunst-wrapped)
           UID: 1000 (raj)
           GID: 100 (users)
        Signal: 11 (SEGV)
     Timestamp: Sat 2025-06-28 16:20:56 EDT (6h ago)
  Command Line: /nix/store/1d08d1a21hsmii0grj2zfkgd4xqnv0g3-dunst-1.12.2/bin/dunst
    Executable: /nix/store/1d08d1a21hsmii0grj2zfkgd4xqnv0g3-dunst-1.12.2/bin/.dunst-wrapped
 Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/dunst.service
          Unit: [email protected]
     User Unit: dunst.service
         Slice: user-1000.slice
     Owner UID: 1000 (raj)
       Boot ID: ebc5d2a196184e0983896eaff3e7aa10
    Machine ID: a16a9f529ed347b393ee46282acae59d
      Hostname: desktop
       Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.\x2edunst-wrapped.1000.ebc5d2a196184e0983896eaff3e7aa10.4273.1751142056000000.zst (present)
  Size on Disk: 506.2K
       Message: Process 4273 (.dunst-wrapped) of user 1000 dumped core.

                Module /nix/store/1d08d1a21hsmii0grj2zfkgd4xqnv0g3-dunst-1.12.2/bin/.dunst-wrapped without build-id.
                Module libbrotlicommon.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libXdmcp.so.6 without build-id.
                Module libXau.so.6 without build-id.
                Module libdatrie.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libexpat.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libbrotlidec.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libbz2.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libxcb-shm.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libxcb-render.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libxcb.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libXrender.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libgraphite2.so.3 without build-id.
                Module libfreetype.so.6 without build-id.
                Module libpcre2-8.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libffi.so.8 without build-id.
                Module libthai.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libfribidi.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libfontconfig.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libjpeg.so.62 without build-id.
                Module libpng16.so.16 without build-id.
                Module libselinux.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libz.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libXss.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libXrandr.so.2 without build-id.
                Module libXext.so.6 without build-id.
                Module libXinerama.so.1 without build-id.
                Module libX11.so.6 without build-id.
                Module libharfbuzz.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libpango-1.0.so.0 without build-id.
                Module libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 without build-id.
                Stack trace of thread 4273:
                #0  0x00007f335b851320 wl_proxy_get_user_data (libwayland-client.so.0 + 0x8320)
                #1  0x0000000000419699 toplevel_handle_output_leave (/nix/store/1d08d1a21hsmii0grj2zfkgd4xqnv0g3-dunst-1.12.2/bin/.dunst-wrapped + 0x19699)
                #2  0x00007f335ab5f052 ffi_call_unix64 (libffi.so.8 + 0xa052)
                #3  0x00007f335ab5d5cd ffi_call_int (libffi.so.8 + 0x85cd)
                #4  0x00007f335ab5e56e ffi_call (libffi.so.8 + 0x956e)
                #5  0x00007f335b853fe6 wl_closure_invoke (libwayland-client.so.0 + 0xafe6)
                #6  0x00007f335b84fc61 dispatch_event (libwayland-client.so.0 + 0x6c61)
                #7  0x00007f335b850fe3 wl_display_dispatch_queue_pending (libwayland-client.so.0 + 0x7fe3)
                #8  0x00000000004197fe _g_water_wayland_source_dispatch (/nix/store/1d08d1a21hsmii0grj2zfkgd4xqnv0g3-dunst-1.12.2/bin/.dunst-wrapped + 0x197fe)
                #9  0x00007f335b42bf6d g_main_context_dispatch_unlocked (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x62f6d)
                #10 0x00007f335b42e2b8 g_main_context_iterate_unlocked.isra.0 (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x652b8)
                #11 0x00007f335b42eda7 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x65da7)
                #12 0x000000000040f5aa dunst_main (/nix/store/1d08d1a21hsmii0grj2zfkgd4xqnv0g3-dunst-1.12.2/bin/.dunst-wrapped + 0xf5aa)
                #13 0x00007f335ac2a4d8 __libc_start_call_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2a4d8)
                #14 0x00007f335ac2a59b __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (libc.so.6 + 0x2a59b)
                #15 0x0000000000409805 _start (/nix/store/1d08d1a21hsmii0grj2zfkgd4xqnv0g3-dunst-1.12.2/bin/.dunst-wrapped + 0x9805)

                Stack trace of thread 4280:
                #0  0x00007f335ad14d90 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0x114d90)
                #1  0x00007f335b42e3a8 g_main_context_iterate_unlocked.isra.0 (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x653a8)
                #2  0x00007f335b42eda7 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x65da7)

I'm on NixOS running niri (a Wayland compositor). Let me know if you need any more details!

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