Re: xserver-sun* breakage.
Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
> Can someone check into this for me?
>
> 1) Does installing xfonts-pex make this problem go away?
>
no, it doesn't. the crash has nothing to do with not finding the
fonts. i ran the server under the debugger, and it crashed when it was
trying to free some memory, presumably because of a bad pointer.
anyway, as i said in a different message on this list, i got the xsun
server to run by installing a new version of glibc which i compiled
myself. i think the problem is in glibc actually. maybe the old egcs
compiler used to compile the version currently in the sparc
distribution produced some bad code. i wonder if recompiling it with
gcc 2.95.1 will make the problem go away.
--alex--
--
| I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active |
| advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with |
| automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion |
| and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
Reply to: