Originally posted by **cdown** April 28, 2023
Didn't debug further yet since I'm going to be away for a bit, but I figure you'd like to know:
```
(gdb) bt
#0 ___pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=0x0) at pthread_mutex_lock.c:80
#1 0x00007f292eeb1733 in XrmDestroyDatabase (db=0x7f2918003860) at /usr/src/debug/libx11/libX11-1.8.4/src/Xrm.c:2653
#2 0x00007f292eeab8c6 in XrmSetDatabase (display=0x5560554e43c0, database=0x5560555675c0) at /usr/src/debug/libx11/libX11-1.8.4/src/Xrm.c:354
#3 0x00005560546707b1 in XRM_update_db () at src/x11/x.c:493
#4 0x0000556054670c38 in x_mainloop_fd_dispatch (source=, callback=, user_data=) at src/x11/x.c:354
#5 0x00007f292eac853b in g_main_dispatch (context=0x5560554c90d0) at ../glib/glib/gmain.c:3460
#6 g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x5560554c90d0) at ../glib/glib/gmain.c:4200
#7 0x00007f292eb25219 in g_main_context_iterate.constprop.0 (context=0x5560554c90d0, block=1, dispatch=1, self=) at ../glib/glib/gmain.c:4276
#8 0x00007f292eac7c7f in g_main_loop_run (loop=0x5560554d4820) at ../glib/glib/gmain.c:4479
#9 0x000055605466063d in dunst_main (argv=, argc=) at src/dunst.c:227
#10 main (argc=, argv=) at /usr/src/debug/dunst/dunst-1.9.2/main.c:5
```
So somehow ___pthread_mutex_lock is getting NULL.
This only happens immediately after starting X/wm/etc, so my guess is something is racing.
Discussed in https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/discussions/1256