Bug#323963: advi: segfault or fatal error when scaling display

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

tags 323963 upstream
thanks

Hi advi developer,

Could you get a look at this bug report, which seems rather strange to me ?

The full log is at :

  http://bugs.debian.org/323963

Thanks in advance,

Friendly,

Sven Luther

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:24:08PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:26:30PM +0200, marcus@better.se wrote:
> > When I launch 'advi' without arguments to display the help file
> > /usr/lib/advi/splash.dvi, the program crashes when I press '<' or '>'
> > to resize the text.
> 
> Confirmed on sarge on amd64. 
> 
> >   Fatal error when running: Xlib error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)
> > 
> > or sometimes segfaults with
> > 
> >   Warning: Graphics.Graphic_failure("Xlib error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)")
> >   Segmenteringsfel
> > 
> > However when I press '>', it terminates with a different message:
> > 
> >   Fatal error when running: Xlib error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
> >  
> > I tried this on two systems, both i386 running Debian testing with
> > some packages from unstable.
> 
> I do not see this exact pattern associated with > and <, but the
> messages are the same. Sometimes it prints Segemtation fault,
> sometimes it does not.
> 
> Greetings
> 
>             Helge
> 
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